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Lilly Ajarova is a Ugandan conservationist and tourism expert. She is the chief executive officer of the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), the Ugandan government agency that is charged with promoting the country as a tourism destination. She was appointed to that position on 10 January 2019.

In January 2019, she was appointed to head UTB, replacing Stephen Asiimwe. Her deputy at UTB is Bradford Ochieng. She was replaced as executive director at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Trust by Dr. Joshua Rukundo. She handed over that office on 5 March 2019.

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From there she went to Chimpanzee Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservation Trust, where she was the executive director for fourteen years. While there, she served as a member of the Uganda Tourism Board. She was the chairperson of the committee that classified and graded Uganda's hotels in 2015.

Before that, from 2005 until 2019, she served as the executive director of Chimpanzee Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the owner/operator of Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, on Lake Victoria.

For over 8 years, from 1996 until 2005, Ms Ajarova worked at the Uganda Wildlife Authority, as the Tourism Development and Marketing Manager. In that capacity, she was responsible for the development of tourism services in Uganda's national parks.

She was born in Uganda in early 1969 (January or February). She attended local primary and secondary schools. She studied at Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Sociology. Her second degree is Master of Business Administration, obtained from the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI), in 2004. Lilly also holds a post graduate diploma in Hotel and Tourism Management from International Institute of Tourism and Management in Austria. In addition, she has a certificate of competence in Board Matters, awarded by the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences.