Prof. Victor Murinde
Director, Centre for Global Finance
AXA Professor in Global Finance.
Murinde is responsible for providing the Centre For Global Finance its vision, strategy, and oversight.
Victor Murinde is a financial economist, with more than 25 years’ expertise, post-PhD, mainly involving university research and teaching, but also including senior-level stints at practitioner, policy and consultancy roles for governments and leading international organisations. He has contributed over 100 research papers to the financial economics literature, mainly in the areas of banking and finance, development finance, and financial markets.
According to the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), his research on “Shaping Bank Regulatory Reforms in Africa” was recognized for exceptional impact. He was the founding Director of African Development Institute at the African Development Bank (2011-2014). He is the Chair of Africa Regional Standing Committee of the Econometric Society. Also, he is Chair of Group C (Finance & Resource Mobilization) for the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC); and Board Member of New Rules for Global Finance, a policy forum based in Washington DC.
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