Sophia Kigozi is a specialised legal practitioner, arbitrator, and member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), UK. She practices in Islamic commercial law and construction law, with extensive experience advising on complex Islamic finance transactions, both domestic and multi-jurisdictional, across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

She has played a key role in legal advisory work relating to the development of regulatory and finance frameworks governing Islamic finance in Uganda. Sophia has acted for development finance institutions, commercial financiers, corporates, and government bodies in matters involving Islamic banking, Islamic microfinance, takaful, and Islamic capital markets intermediaries. In construction law and practice, Sophia trained with Hewitt-Decipher Partnership in Dubai and is a Member of the Institute of Construction Claims Practitioners, UK. She has acted for both contractors and employers in contract management and claims representation, including within tiered dispute resolution mechanisms under standard form contracts such as FIDIC and PPDA. Her construction law background significantly informs her work in structuring and implementing Islamic project finance transactions, including sukuk. She is also a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner and works seamlessly within project environments.

Sophia has been recognised three times as one of the 500 Most Influential Women in Islamic Business and Finance by Cambridge WOMANi. She is a Cambridge Master in Islamic Finance Structuring, an alumna of the Cambridge Islamic Finance Leadership Programme, and holds an Advanced Diploma in Islamic Banking and Finance from the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF). She is currently fast-tracking an MSc in Islamic Banking and Finance with Coventry University, UK. She is also undertaking advanced studies under Mufti Faraz Adam, focusing on the applied use of AAOIFI standards through a Shariah, Maqasid, and Usul framework.

Sophia holds an LL.B (Hons) from Makerere University, a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, Kampala, and an MBA in Finance.