Marios Obwona

  • Consultant (Macroeconomics)
  • National Planning Authority, Uganda

Dr. Marios Obwona is currently a Consultant (Macroeconomics) at the National Planning Authority. He has over 30 years of experience in economic policy research and in teaching at Graduate levels at Makerere University, the Australian National University and as a visiting Lecturer at the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Collaborative Masters and PhD Economics Programmes, Nairobi, Kenya.

Work experience includes

  • Senior Lecturer, Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Makerere University
  • Principal Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Centre; Makerere University
  • Executive Director Research, Bank of Uganda; and
  • Director of Training, African Economic Research Consortium.

In 2012-2016, Marios Obwona served as Senior Economic Advisor on a USAID-funded Governance and Economic Management Support Programme to the Republic of Liberia and Recently, as an Economic Research Consultant on an EU-funded State Capacity Building Support to the Republic of Sierra Leone, he helped in setting up an Economic policy research unit in the Ministry Finance.