Alfred Bizoza
Prof. Alfred R. BIZOZA is a PhD holder and a Professor of Agricultural Economics from the University of Rwanda (UR) with extensive academic and policy research experience in areas of Agricultural Economics, Institutional Economics of Soil and Water Conservation, Economics of Land, and Economics of Climate Change Adaptation. He has also served as the Director of Research at the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research during 2014-2017. He served as a Senior Research Adviser for the LAND Project funded by USAID for the period 2012-2014 after being the Director of the Consultancy Bureau of UR in 2011. He has combined his academic and policy research which allowed him to publish several papers, books, and book chapters and has significantly contributed to the drafting of various policies, strategies, national reports in Rwanda elsewhere in Africa. Bizoza is currently a principal investigator of three innovation related research projects of which some are funded by the National Council for Science and Technology in Rwanda (NST), the collaboration between University of Rwanda and SIDA, and DeSIRA – a EU-funded project.
Furthermore, Bizoza serves in different research network, boards, and platforms as a member or team leader such as Rwanda Academy of Science and INGSA. He was recently appointed by UR as a team leader for INGSA Africa Hub Rwanda.