Dr Christopher Samuel Mayanja holds a PhD in Education Leadership, Management and Policy from the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; a Masters degree in Management Studies (Project Planning and Management) of Uganda Management Institute; He also hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Demography from Cairo Demographic Center, Egypt. He is the Head of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation department at Uganda Management Institute, a post he have held since 2016, prior to which he was Senior Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at UMI since 2013. He was the District Planner at Buikwe District Local Government (2010-2012), prior to which, He was the District Population Officer at Mukono District for a period of more than eight years (2002-2010). He have vast experience in strategic planning and management, as well as monitoring and evaluation, where He have supported several organisations while developing their strategic plans as well as reviewing then. At Uganda Management Institute, He chaired the ISO Steering Committee of Uganda Management Institute which successfully delivered the Institute’s ISO 9001:2015 Quality Standards Certificate. He is a part of the UMI Gender and Equity Budgeting Resource Pool, a project coordinated by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development as funded by the World Bank. He is also a member of the Gender Focal Group at UMI, and He also qualified as a Resource Person on the global Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI), which aims at ensuring that economic policies are gendered unlike being gender-blind. He was a local consultant under ITAD which entered into an agreement with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women to undertake work on the Evaluation of UN Women’s contribution to Governance and National Planning Project.