The Board of Promoters of the University of Kigali have named Professor Robert Rugimbana as the new Vice Chancellor of the University effective 1st March, 2022. In making the appointment, the Chairman of the Board, Mr Philibert Afrika noted that Professor 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 as Head of Department.
In accepting the appointment, the incoming Vice Chancellor expressed his appreciation to Board of Promoters for the opportunity offered to him and indicated a particularly strong willingness to continue to lift the national and international image of the University.
Professor Robert Rugimbana is a Professor of Marketing and a rated South African National Research Foundation scholar. Professor Rugimbana undertook his post 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/entrepreneurship areas
Professor Rugimbana has also served on several Academic Governance Review Panels including Avondale College, Australia. In South Africa, consultancies in the main involved various capacity building projects and senior advisory roles in Universities such as University of Western Cape, University of Limpopo, the Da Vinci Institute and the new EDUVOS Private University, formally Pearson Institute of Higher Education
Robert 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), The South Australian Association of Credit Unions