curriculum vitae patrick wakida kamiza ph.d … · citizenship: uganda, permanent resident of...

6
CURRICULUM VITAE Patrick Wakida Kamiza Ph.D ADDRESS: Research World International , Second Floor Fame House, Ntinda-Kampala P.O. Box 10150 Canada Phone: +256-776642764, 256-312290569, E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.researchworldint.net CITIZENSHIP: Uganda, Permanent Resident of Uganda CURRENT POSITION: CEO-Research World International Ltd, MAJOR FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Education, and Market and business research EDUCATION: Degree Field Institution Year B.A.(with honors) Economics History Islamic University in Uganda 1994-97 MSc. AgroEconomics & Management Patrice Lumumba University 1999-01 Mphil Sociology of development University of Warwick 2002-03 Ph.D. Social Policy University of Warwick 2002-06 Ph.D. Dissertation: Understanding the impact of decentralization on the quality of primary health care in Uganda: The experiences of users and provider of health service delivery. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: a) Affiliations 2011-present Member , Markets Group, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group 2011 (Spring) Visiting Scholar, University of Warwick, Institute for Economic

Upload: votram

Post on 21-Jun-2018

246 views

Category:

Documents


1 download

TRANSCRIPT

CURRICULUM VITAE

Patrick Wakida Kamiza Ph.D ADDRESS:

Research World International , Second Floor Fame House, Ntinda-Kampala P.O. Box 10150 Canada

Phone: +256-776642764, 256-312290569, E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.researchworldint.net

CITIZENSHIP:

Uganda, Permanent Resident of Uganda

CURRENT POSITION: CEO-Research World International Ltd, MAJOR FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Education, and Market and business research EDUCATION: Degree Field Institution Year B.A.(with

honors)

Economics History Islamic University in Uganda 1994-97

MSc. AgroEconomics &

Management

Patrice Lumumba University 1999-01

Mphil Sociology of

development

University of Warwick 2002-03

Ph.D. Social Policy University of Warwick 2002-06

Ph.D. Dissertation: Understanding the impact of decentralization on the quality of primary health care in Uganda: The experiences of users and provider of health service delivery. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: a) Affiliations

2011-present

Member , Markets Group, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

2011 (Spring) Visiting Scholar, University of Warwick, Institute for Economic

Policy Research

2011-present

Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, School of Oriental and African Studies

2010-present

Member, CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity, UWO

2010-present

Research Network Fellow, MSRA

2010-present

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (Labor Studies, Children’s Program)

2008 - Present Senior Fellow, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA)

2001-present

Research Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Nairobi Employment and Work Experiences

• Research World International Ltd- December 2011-Present: Chief Executive Officer

• TNS RMS- Part of the TNS global Research Group- July 2007- 31 November 2011 Country Representative TNS Uganda

• 2006- 2007. Pathfinder International, Uganda Program Manager OVC/HIV AIDS

• 2004- 2005 Warwickshire County Council. Research, monitoring &evaluation Manager, UK

• 2003-2005 Warwick University centre for Primary Health care. Research Associate/ Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health care and the Faculty of Economics b) Consulting/Advising Activities 2012-present

Expert consulting for UHMG on Pharmaceutical and contraceptive markets

2012 Expert Consulting on the re-branding of NSSF

2013 Expert Consulting on the Warid-Airtel Merger

2011-present

Technical Review Committee, National Longitudinal Surveys

2009-2012

Re-design and analysis of Client Satisfaction Survey for Uganda Student Loans Program

2009-present

Expert Consultant to Kenya’s a Student Loans Program on various projects

2008-present

Advisory Panel for 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

2006-2007

Expert Consultant to Human Resources and Skills Development of Uganda project on An Empirical Model of Human Capital in General Equilibrium

c) Conference Organizing and Other Activities

2012

Co-Organizer for “Financing Human Capital Credit Constraints, and Market Frictions Workshop” (Vietnam)

2012

Co-Organizer for “Financing Human Capital Investment” United Kingdom, (GB)

2010

Program Committee for Annual Ugandan Labor Market and Skills Research Network

2010 Program Committee for 2010 EALE/SOLE International Conference (London, UK)

2007

Program Committee for Annual Uganda Labor Market and Skills Research Network

2004 Program Committee for Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS: 2012-2014 Faculty Scholar Award, University of Warwick, UK

2005-2007 CIBC Faculty Fellowship

1997-1998

Henry Morgenthau Jr. Fellowship

1996-1997 Joint Center for Poverty Research Graduate Fellowship TEACHING: University of Warwick, UK (Teaching assistant) 2003-2006 1. Economics of Human Behaviour (Honors UG) 2. Labor Economics (UG) 3. Advanced Methods in Applied Economics (UG) 4. Advanced Methods in Applied Economics (PG) 5. Research Method and Planning Uganda Management Institute 2006 1. Intermediate Microeconomics (UG) 2. Economics of Human Behavior (UG) 3. Graduate Labor Economics (UG) 4. Economics of Human Behavior (UG)

5. Development Economics and Planning 6. Research Methods and planning DESERTATION SUPERVISION:

i. Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Cano Urbina, Javier

“Informal Labor Markets and On-the-Job Training” Completed

Belley, Philippe

“Understanding Wage Growth: A Test of the Learning-by-Doing Model” Completed: Fall 2010

Bozkurt, Eda

“Interstate Migration” Expected completion: Summer 2013

SOME RESEARCH GRANTS: 2012-2016

“Human Capital, Credit, and Education Policy in Uganda,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $168,985. Principal Investigator-on going.

2008-2011

“Borrowing Constraints, Student Loans, and Educational Outcomes,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $69,000. Principal Investigator.

2006

“The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement,” Canadian Labor Market and Skills Researcher Network Grant, $15,000. Co-Principal Investigator with P. Belley.

2003-2005

“Lifecycle Human Capital Investment,” CIBC Project on Human Capital and Productivity, $10,000. Principal Investigator.

2005-2008

“Antisocial Behaviour and Drug Use: A 20-year Follow-Up of a Longitudinal Randomized Experiment with At-Risk Kindergarten Boys,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, $101,500. Collaborator with Principal Investigators E. LaCourse, P. Gendreau, F. Vitaro and R. Tremblay.

UNPUBLISHED WORK:

i. Articles Currently Under Review at Refereed Journals:

Wakida .P, Philippe, “Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in Africa: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?” revision requested by Canadian Journal of Economics. (Earlier version: “Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income: Comparing the GLR, CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity Working Paper 2010-3, 2010.) Wakida. P. and Enrico Moretti, “Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models using Instrumental Variables,” NBER Working Paper No. 17039, revision requested by Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011.

ii. Unpublished Manuscripts and Working Papers:

Wakida, Philippe, “Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the Africa: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?” Working Paper, 2011. (Earlier version: “Post- Secondary Attendance by Parental Income: Comparing the Africa and Asia,” CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity Working Paper 2010-3, 2010.) Elizabeth, and Wakida “Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family,” Working Paper, 2012. Monge-Naranjo, Wakida and Lance Lochner, “Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints,” NBER Working Paper No. 8815, 2008.

Heckman, and Wakida.P, “Wage Subsidies and Skill Formation: A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit,” unpublished Manuscript, 2012

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Workshop on Human Capital and Education, Cleveland, Ohio July 2004

Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Meetings, Florence, Italy, June 2004

Ref on request