Maud Kamatenesi Mugisha

Maud Kamatenesi Mugisha is an Ugandan natural scientist and academic administrator. She is the former vice chancellor of Bishop Stuart University, a private chartered higher education institution in Uganda, accredited by the Uganda National Council for Higher Education. Since 1 March 2023, she has been serving as the chairperson of the University Council at Kampala International University.

Background

She attended Kasanna Primary School. She later attended Nganwa High School for her O-Level education, between 1984 and 1988. In 1985, she joined Maryhill High School, in Mbarara, for her A-Level studies. In 1993, she was admitted to Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university. She studied Botany and Zoology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree. She studied for the postgraduate Diploma in Education, also from Makerere.
Her Master of Science in Environment and Natural Resources Management degree and her Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology, were both obtained from Makerere University.

Soon after writing her final examinations in botany and zoology at Makerere in 1996, Mugisha was recruited as a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Science at the same institution. From 1998 until 2000, she served as lecturer and head of department at Uganda Fisheries Training Institute in Entebbe. She later served as the head of fisheries extension education and administration, Fisheries Training Institute, Entebbe. From 2010 until 2011, she served as the deputy dean, research and graduate studies, in the Faculty of Science, Makerere University. From February 2011 until May 2014, she served as the dean of the School of Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences at Makerere University.
On 2 May 2014, Mugisha was appointed vice chancellor of Bishop Stuart University