John Baptist Odong is CEGER’s Executive Director. He is a results-oriented research manager with over 15 years’ experience of field research in Uganda. He holds a BSc in Financial and Computer Management from the Cyprus Institute of Marketing and a Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting) from Makerere University Business School.

His experience covers people management, research methods, training and mentorship, data entry and analysis, health and safety, finance, credit management and audit. He gained it with Makerere University, the United Nations World Food Programme, Stanbic Bank, Nordic Consulting Group, the Centre for Basic Research, Johns Hopkins University, Unifa Investments and Shalom Charity Foundation.

He was Field Supervisor on the study Incentivizing Action to Reduce Air Pollution and Susceptibility to COVID-19 and Team Leader on the KCCA Waste Monitoring Study. At CEGER he is Field Supervisor on the UCSB waste management field experiment. On the PASGR AYPReS assignment he is accountable for the contract, finance and logistics, and served as a trainer and field supervisor.