“I am saddened by the news of the passing on of our gallant alumnus Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile who has also been the Governor of the Bank of Uganda. While at Makerere, Professor Mutebile served as Guild President,” said Vice-Chancellor Prof Nawangwe.
Mutebile also worked as a consultant for multilateral and regional organizations including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of East and Central Africa, UK Department for International Development, the North-South Institute in Canada, and for the governments of Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Eritrea, and Nepal.
Mutebile passed away on 23/1/2022 at 5:30 at Nairobi Hospital Where he has been battling with illness for long
Until his death he has been Ugandan economist. A bank Governor since ,2001 when he was first appointed as a Governor till date
Mutebile attended Kigezi College Butobere and Makerere College School in Kampala, before joining Makerere University in 1971, where he was a Guild President, and the institute will remember him as a pillar. He however completed his undergraduate studies at Durham University in England, after fleeing Uganda having made a scathing attack on the then government decision to expel Asians from the country.
While there, he began his post-graduate studies at Balliol College, Oxford in 1974, but went to the University of Dar es Salaam to lecture and conduct research while pursuing his doctorate in economics.