Dr Wycliffe Nduga Ouma

Dr Wycliffe Nduga Ouma is a financial economist and researcher with over a decade of experience in finance-related research, including financial economics, monetary policy analysis, exchange rate dynamics, capital markets, ESG, sustainable finance and development finance. He is based at the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment at Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand. His current work extends this finance and policy research background into African philanthropy, non-profit sector economics, youth employment and social investment. He serves as East Africa Regional Research Lead for the CAPSI Youth Project and as Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator for the wider 17-country project, where he supports research coordination, data harmonisation, evidence synthesis, quality assurance, partner engagement and institutional learning across multi-country research systems.

His teaching approach is research-led, evidence-driven and practice-oriented. He integrates empirical analysis, African institutional realities and applied financial reasoning to support students in developing rigorous analytical skills for research, policy and practice. Dr Ouma also plays a leading academic role in the African Philanthropy Conference, where he contributes to intellectual framing, research agenda-setting, programme development and scholarly engagement on African-centred knowledge production in philanthropy and social investment. He is also involved as a technical lead in ongoing work to develop an African philanthropy measurement infrastructure, including index-oriented tools to strengthen evidence, comparability, and field-level analysis. Before joining Wits Business School, he worked as a Research Associate at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies under the Central Bank of Kenya, where his work focused on exchange rate movements, monetary policy, balance-of-payments dynamics, and macroeconomic stability.