Arsene Balihuta is Senior Presidential Advisor, Office of the President of Uganda and Co-founder and Chairman of The Organisation for the Support of the Childless. He was also the Executive Chairman of the Uganda Development Corporation and Uganda's Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to WTO, UN and other international organisations. He has been a visiting professor at the Department of Ecomics, University of the Pacific, California and Lecturer, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Ecomics and Management at Makerere University. He was born in Chahi in the Kisoro District of South Western Uganda.