Associate Professor Alex Thomas Ijjo is the National Director of the Christian Policy Think Tank - Center of Faith, Family and Justice, and the Director of the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research at Cavendish University Uganda. Professor Ijjo is also a former Senior Fellow and Head of the Trade and Regional Integration Unit at the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), at Makerere University. He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom (2001), a Summa-Cum-Laude Licentiate in Development Economics from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy (1995) and a Bachelor of Statistics and Applied Economics of Makerere University (1991). In 1999, Alex Thomas Ijjo served as a PhD intern at the United Nations University (now UNU-MERIT, then UNU-INTECH) in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Ijjo was a full-time lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Makerere University where he taught Development Policy and Economics. Prior to that, Dr. Ijjo served as Senior Lecturer and Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Management at Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) in Nkozi, Uganda. Prof Ijjo continues to serve as an External Examiner of Examinations, and Masters’ and PhD dissertations at several universities including but not limited to Makerere University Business School (MUBS), College of Business and Management Sciences (COBAMS) in Makerere University, Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) and Mountains of the Moon University (MMU).

Prof Ijjo has also been part of Policy Technical Working Group in the Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC), and remains a Trade Policy Consultant and Researcher. He has published in peer reviewed journals, working papers, blog posts, print, and on-line news media on a range of subjects including International Trade, Foreign Aid, Economic Growth, Regional Integration, Trade Facilitation and agricultural value chains. Professor Ijjo’s areas of interest include but are not limited to – Public Policy, Philosophy, Economics, Political Economy, Ethics, Biblical Christianity and the Philosophy of Science.

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