Linda Nakato

Dr. Linda Nakato is a Research Associate in the Microeconomics Department at the Economic Policy Research Centre. She previously worked as a teaching assistant (teaching master’s courses on industrial economics and emerging markets) at the University of Agder in Norway and as a risk advisor in the operaKonal risk department at Absa Bank.

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Her research interests include financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship, rural development, women’s economic empowerment, microfinance, and gender issues.

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Nakato holds a PhD in InternaKonal Business and Master of Science in Business AdministraKon both from the University of Agder in Norway, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree from Makerere University.