Donald Rugira Kugonza is a 2-time continental award-winning scientist, and also ranked in the top three Ugandan Animal/Veterinary Scientists (https://www.adscientificindex.com/). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (UNAS); a Fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); an Associate Professor of Animal Sciences at Makerere University (MAK); Adjunct Professor of BioSciences at Chandigarh University, India’s No. 1 private University. He is an Adjunct scientist with the African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD) and has been the Eastern Africa sub-regional focal person on Animal Genetics since 2018, and worked on agricultural policy at national and regional level. He is a journal editor with Elsevier and a sub editor/reviewer for several others. He is a Process catalyst, an ardent Mountaineer, and a proactive Science mentor. He has a 25-year unbroken teaching, collaborative research focused on optimizing agricultural productivity. He has mentored over 30 graduate students from several African countries and worked with over 250 research collaborating scientists with whom he has published over 200 publications and has presented at conferences on all continents. Since 2014, he has been on the Advisory Committee of the National Agricultural Research Organisation - National Livestock Resources Research Institute (NARO-NaLIRRI) that he currently chairs. He has studied, published on & farmed various livestock species; he has international expertise and has done consultancy in various agricultural domains, contributing to policy at the continental stage. A decade ago, he won an ‘Africa-wide Young Professional in Science’ Award and before that, had gone global, becoming Vice-Chairman of the World Youth Forum WYF) an organisation of 130 member countries.
