Associate Professor Sulait Tumwine

Associate Professor of behavioral accounting and finance

Biography

Sulait Tumwine is an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting and Associate Dean of faculty of Graduate Studies and research at the Makerere University School Business, Makerere University – Kampala, Uganda.  Prof. Tumwine has been in teaching and consultancy for over 18 years; he teaches and researches managerial accounting and behavioral finance, financial institutions, firm performance, and their relation with sustainability. Prof. Tumwine is interested in examining behavioral finance and sustainable management, mainly how the finance, economic, costing, and pricing aspects are linked and intertwined within the organizational performance and sustainable perspective.   

Prof. Tumwine has extensive academic publication experience. He has published more than 15 papers in ABDC A* journals. His works have been published in leading journals in business and management, such as World Journal of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development, the African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, the Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance, and Bank Research.

Prof. Tumwine has served on the Editorial board of the International Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research, and is also a regular reviewer for major economic and management journals, including the International Journal of Emerging Markets, Makerere University Business Journal.

Prof. Tumwine's research findings have generated social impacts beyond academia, with his viewpoints appearing in independent academic media outlets such as The New vision, mainstream media outlet in Uganda.

Prof. Tumwine has successfully participated in major research and consultancy projects to completion within private and public domains, which is the business school`s Priority Research Initiative Project on business sustainability. Prof. Tumwine has also been involved in international collaborative research projects. 

Prof. Tumwine has supervised more than 20 postgraduate students to completion. He welcomes applications from prospective PhD students to work on research projects relevant to Behavioral accounting, managerial finance and financial sustainability, etc. 

Qualifications

·        PhD – Behavioral finance, MBA, BBA, Dip. In Education

Major international awards, engagements, participation

·        Emerald Literati Award winner for outstanding paper, 2019

·        Judge - Wharton-QS Reimagine Education, 2022 and 2023

·        University Administration Support Program (UASP) Research Management and Leadership Course - Carnegie Corporation of New York

·        And several others