The Board of Promoters of University of Kigali (UoK) has appointed Professor Robert Rugimbana as the new Vice Chancellor of the University, effective March 1, 2022. In making the appointment, Philibert Afrika the Chairman of the Board, noted that Rugimbana brings to the Vice Chancellor role, a wealth of administrative university experience and scholarship having worked in important University governance roles such as serving as Executive Dean, Campus Rector, Associate Dean, Director of a Graduate School and Head of Department. In accepting the appointment, the incoming Vice Chancellor expressed his appreciation to UoK’s Board of Promoters for the opportunity offered him and indicated a particularly strong willingness to continue to lift the national and international images of the University. Rugimbana is a Professor of Marketing and a rated South African National Research Foundation scholar. He undertook his graduate studies in Australia and ended up being promoted to the Professoriate at Griffith University in Brisbane Queensland. Professor Rugimbana has taught, researched, supervised, and examined Masters and PhD thesis of students in a range of Business/Marketing/ He has also served on several Academic Governance Review Panels including Avondale College, Australia. In South Africa, Prof Rugimbana has worked with consultancies in various capacity building projects and senior advisory roles in universities such as the University of Western Cape, University of Limpopo, the Da Vinci Institute and the new EDUVOS Private University, formerly Pearson Institute of Higher Education. He has several international peer-reviewed journals to his credit and completed an edited book on Cross-Cultural Marketing, published by Thomson Learning International Business Press – UK. He has also served as a senior consultant for several large Australian Organizations including one of the four largest banks in Australia, the Australian New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and The South Australian Association of Credit Unions. Registration for our January 2022 intake is still ongoing! Apply now! Please call +250788303386/+250789009221 or online via: mis.uok.ac.rw/apply.
