He left the position to join the presidential race in Uganda to take place in 2016.
[2] He was born in Kasharara Village, Kagongo Parish, Ibanda District, in the Western Region of Uganda.
In 1997, he was awarded the postgraduate Diploma in the Analysis of Linear Programming Models by the University of Trondheim, also in Norway.
[3] His career in academia began soon after his first degree, when he worked as a teaching assistant in the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics at Makerere University, from 1994 until 1998.
While pursuing graduate study in Norway, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Informatics at Bergen University from 1997 until 2000.