Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile
Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile | |
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Born | Kabale District, Uganda |
27 January 1949
Residence | Camp ala, Uganda |
Nationality | Ugandan |
Ethnicity | Mukiga |
Citizenship | Uganda |
Alma mater | Durham University Bachelor of Science in economics Balliol College, University of Oxford Master of Science in economics University of Dar es Salaam Doctor of Philosophy in economics Nkumba University Honorary Doctor of Philosophy |
Occupation | Economist and central banker |
Years active | since 1979 |
Known for | Economics, fiscal discipline |
Home town | Kabale |
Title | governor Bank of Uganda |
Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile PhD, is a Ugandan economist and banker. He is the governor of the Bank of Uganda, the central bank of Uganda. He was first appointed to that position on 1 January 2001, and was re-appointed for a second five-year term on 1 January 2006. In November 2010, he was re-appointed for a third five-year term, effective 12 January 2011.[1]
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History
Tumusiime-Mutebile attended Kigezi College Butobere for his O-Level studies (grades S1-S4).[2] He then attended Makerere College School in Kampala for his A-Level studies (grades S5-S6).[3] In 1970, he entered Makerere University, where he was elected president of the university students' guild, with the intention of studying economics and politics.[citation needed]
He was forced to flee Uganda in 1972 after he gave a speech publicly criticizing the expulsion of Asians from the country by Idi Amin. He fled to England via Tanzania, and was able to finish his studies at Durham University. In October 1974, he began his post-graduate studies at Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to East Africa. He entered the University of Dar es Salaam to lecture and conduct research while pursuing his doctorate in economics. In 2009, Nkumba University, a private university based in Nkumba near Entebbe, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree in recognition of his "great contribution towards the development of Uganda's financial sector".[4]
Career
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Between 1979 and 1984, Tumusiime-Mutebile was appointed to several government positions in Uganda ranging from deputy principal secretary to the president at State House in 1979, to undersecretary in the ministry of planning in 1981, where he rose to senior economist and then chief economist in 1984. In 1992, he was appointed permanent secretary to the newly combined ministry of finance planning & economic development, a merger that he had advocated while working under Minister of Finance Gerald Ssendaula.
He is the longest serving chief executive in the Bank of Uganda's history.[5] He is credited with many of the sound economic policies adopted by the Uganda government at the urging of the central bank during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s.[6][7]
Other responsibilities
Since 2006, he has been a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at Makerere University, the oldest and largest university in Uganda. Tumusiime-Mutebile is the chancellor of the International University of East Africa, a private university established in 2011, with an urban campus in Kampala, Uganda's capital.[8]
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See also
- Louis Kasekende
- List of banks in Uganda
- Economy of Uganda
- Ugandan shilling
- List of university leaders in Uganda
References
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