The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) board has announced the appointment of Victor Murinde as the organisation’s new executive director.
Joining AERC from SOAS University of London, where he has been serving as an AXA Professor of Global Finance, Murinde is a distinguished financial economist with more than 25 years of experience post-PhD, mainly involving university research and teaching.
He has also had senior-level stints in practitioner, policy, and consultancy roles for governments and leading international organisations.
While confirming the appointment, AERC board chairman Ernest Aryeetey emphasised Murinde’s key strategic role at the helm of AERC.
“The board is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof Murinde, who will spearhead management strategies geared at inspiring and driving the organisation forward, as one of the most authoritative economic policy research and capacity building institutions in Africa,” Aryeetey said.
He noted that Murinde holds outstanding credentials and has been competitively recruited to advance and provide transformative leadership for AERC, while working with a pool of distinguished network members and talented staff at its Nairobi headquarters.
Murinde enjoys fundamental knowledge of the AERC, its mandate, structure, and the operationalisation of the AERC Strategic Plan, having previously served on the AERC Programme Committee and across the research, training, and policy outreach components.
In his scholarly endeavours, he has contributed over 120 research papers on economics, banking, and finance topics.
He was also the founding director of the African Development Institute at the African Development Bank (2011-2014); and carried out major consultancy projects for a range of international organisations.