Charles Mbeeta Businge, who is from Uganda, has over 30 years of experience in professional development and humanitarian work, focusing on social justice issues.

His career began in 1990 as a Research Assistant at the Ministry of Information (Education Broadcasting) and continued at the Uganda Constitutional Review Commission in 1991-1992. He then served as a Cooperative Officer with the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Uganda from 1992 to 1997. In 1997, he joined ActionAid International in Uganda, holding various roles - including Project Manager, Head of Education Policy and Regional Manager for the Northern Region. In 2004, he became the Civil Society Adviser for DFID in Uganda. He returned to ActionAid International as Country Director in Uganda in 2008, later moving to their regional office in Nairobi (Kenya), where he served as Head of Country Coordination and then Regional Director from 2015 to 2017. In 2017, he joined Plan International as Director of the subregion for East and Southern Africa and became Director for the subregion of the Middle East, North, and Horn of Africa in 2021.

Charles has served on several governance boards, including Raising Voices (Uganda), Twaweza East Africa, ActionAid International (Bangladesh), Fair Green and Global Alliance (Netherlands), and the Cross-cultural Foundation Uganda.

He holds a Master of Development Studies degree from University College, Dublin, Ireland; a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda; and a postgraduate diploma in Computer Science, also from Makerere University. He has also participated in various professional trainings.

Charles is fluent in English, has intermediate proficiency in Swahili and Luganda, and is learning French. His native language is Runyakitara. Charles is married and has three children.