Dr Charles Kalinzi
Summary
Dr. Charles Kalinzi is a Senior teaching fellow- procurement. He is also serving as a course leader for Business and Supply chain Management undergraduate course and a post-doc researcher. His PhD research focused on the topic of exploring the nature, magnitude and quantifying the performance expectations gap in community roadworks contracts, using a mixed methods sequential exploratory approach; in trying to understand its causes and potential effects and implications to the community roadworks sector.
Charles joined University of Portsmouth in January 2023, having completed a PhD in public procurement from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, an MBA in management of Government Procurement from Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands and a BSc degree in Mathematics from Makerere University. Charles previously served as a specialist procurement consultant in strategic and operational procurement, lectured purchasing and supply chain management courses at all levels in many Ugandan Institutions of higher learning and served as HOD, Procurement & and Supply chain, from 2006 to 2016, before embarking on a PHD. His current research and publications focus on procurement professionalism, Strategic Procurement & Supply Management related areas. Charles is operationally familiar with the procurement rules of the Ugandan Government, Rwandan, Tanzanian, Malawi, Zambia and Kenya, ADB and the European Commission, and regularly got involved in development, implementation and follow-up of procurement training programs and assessing national training needs in procurement & logistics management, policies and strategies to improve Uganda’s public procurement and logistics sub-sector.
Research outputs
2023
Exploring stakeholders’ understanding of procurement performance expectations gap in public works contracts in Uganda’s district local governments: a qualitative analysis of results
Kabagambe, L. B., Kalinzi, C., Mpeera Ntayi, J., Muhwezi, M., Munene, J. K.
1 Sep 2023, In: International Journal of Procurement Management. 18, 2, p. 141-169, 29p.