Prof. Julius Kiiza is an Professor of Political Economy and Development in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Makerere University (Uganda). He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from Makerere University, a First Class Master of Public Policy from the University of Sydney (Australia), and a PhD from the same University. Julius did his postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University Centre for African Studies in 2003. He has since been a visiting fellow at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania (USA), the University of Cambridge, UK; and the Washington-based Center for Global Development. Julius has an active research and publications interest in the broad areas of institutional political economy, local content and information disclosure in the oil sector (in Uganda/East Africa), economic nationalism, and transformative industrial policies. He was the lead editor of a book entitled: Electoral Democracy in Uganda: Understanding the Institutional Processes and Outcomes of the 2006 Elections (Fountain Publishers: Kampala). Julius also authored Chap 6 (Unlocking the Economic Potential of Northern Uganda) in UNDP’s award-winning Uganda Human Development Report 2015: Unlocking the Development Potential of Northern Uganda.