Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa, also Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa, (5 July 1945 – 7 January 2021) was a Ugandan agricultural economist, politician and academic, who served as the chairman of the Uganda Microfinance Support Center, a government-owned company established in 2001, that manages micro credit programs in Uganda, funded by the African Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank and the Ugandan government.
[3] In 1980, he entered elective Ugandan politics, serving there until his resignation in 2004, when he accepted a job with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), as the Director of IFPRI's new division, the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
[5] In 1980, Mugerwa contested for Member of Parliament, on the Democratic Party (Uganda) political ticket, to represent Luweero South East.
When the National Resistance Movement took over government in 1986, Kisamba Mugerwa successfully served as the first elected Local Council 5 chairman for Luweero District (1986–1991).
He owned a commercial mixed agricultural farm (crops and domestic animals) at Kikonda Village, Bamunanika Sub-county, Luweero District, in the Buganda Region of Uganda.