Medard Kakuru – Economic Policy Research Centre

Personal Information

Name: Medard Kakuru
Designation: Research Analyst

Medard Kakuru joined EPRC in May 2019 as a Research Analyst in Microeconomics Department.

Mr. Kakuru spent over 10 years working as an Agricultural Extension Worker; two and a half years working at Bioversity International as a Research Fellow before joining EPRC. His research interests are food security, poverty, climate change, unemployment, agricultural policy analysis, agribusiness development studies and impact evaluation.

Mr. Kakuru started his research career in 2014 as an independent research consultant at Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara. Mr. Kakuru has written and published in the areas of food security, collective action, consumer preferences, impact evaluation and value chain analysis.

He holds a Master’s of Science in Agricultural & Applied Economics from Makerere University (2016) and a Bachelor of Agribusiness Management from Makerere University (2005).