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Frederick Kayanja

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Nationality
  
Ugandan

Name
  
Frederick Kayanja

Ethnicity
  
Muganda

Residence
  
Kampala, Uganda

Citizenship
  
Uganda

Known for
  
Academia

Years active
  
1972 — present


Born
  
1938 (age 77–78)
Uganda

Occupation
  
Academic and Academic Administrator

Title
  
Chancellor Gulu University Immediate Former Vice Chancellor Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Alma mater
  
University of Cambridge, Harvard University

Frederick Ian Bantubano Kayanja is a Ugandan physician, academic, and academic administrator. He has been the chancellor of Gulu University, a public institution of higher education, since October 2014, replacing Martin Aliker. He is a former vice chancellor of the Mbarara University of Science and Technology. He assumed that position in 1989 and stepped down in October 2014. Before that, he served as the deputy vice chancellor of Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda.

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Background

Kayanja was born in Uganda in 1938.

Education and work history

Kayanja holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from Makerere University. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy, obtained in 1970 from Wolfson College, Cambridge. He also obtained postdoctoral training from the Harvard School of Medicine in the United States.

Kayanja has also worked in a number of institutions both inside and outside of Uganda; including:

  • Lecturer at the University of London in the United Kingdom
  • Associate professor at the University of Nairobi
  • Professor and dean at Makerere University
  • Chairman of the Uganda National Agricultural Research Organization
  • Chairman of the Uganda National Council for Higher Education.
  • Other responsibilities

    He is the editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Ecology. He also is a fellow of both the African Academy of Sciences and the Uganda National Academy of Sciences.

    He is a survivor of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

    References

    Frederick Kayanja Wikipedia