Dr. Romanus L. Dimoso, a Tanzanian born on 13^th June, 1964 in Morogoro, Tanzania, is a PhD holder awarded in 2009 at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His areas of academic competences and specializations are Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Sector Economics, Monetary Economics, and Quantitative Research Methodology. Dr. Dimoso is currently actively engaged in teaching Advanced Econometrics Theory, Applied Econometrics and Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Masters and PhD students at Mzumbe University inclusive of all its campus colleges and training centres in the country. He is also supervising both PhD and Masters Students in their research and theses writing.

Dr. Romanus L. Dimoso has carried out a wide range of academic, professional and administrative posts. Of recent, he was the Head of Mzumbe University Mwanza Centre. Dr. Dimoso was the Acting Director and later full Director of the Directorate of Research, Publications and Postgraduate Studies of Mzumbe University for six years from January 2012 to December 2017. In between 2015 – 2017, the University Council appointed him to serve as Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration and Finance) of Mzumbe University.

Dr. Dimoso is an external examiner in economics related programmes to various academic institutions of high learning in the country and abroad including Dodoma based Institute of Rural Development Planning - IRDP and Sokoine University of Agriculture - SUA (local) and University of Zambia and University of Malawi (foreign). Based on his academic expertise and administrative treasury, Dr. Dimoso was involved in a number of profiled consultancies commissioned by the university and outside organizations. Amongst consultancies commissioned by the university are being the chair of various committees including but not limited to the 4^th Mzumbe University Corporate Strategic Plan (2017/18-2020/2021), the 14^th and 15^th Mzumbe University Graduation Committees (2015-2016), Mzumbe University Review Committees of Publication Policy and Postgraduate Guidelines, Mzumbe University Housing Committee, et cetera. Amongst consultancies commissioned by outside organizations are conducting Technical Evaluation for assessing and verifying the readiness of Mkwawa University College of Education (MUCE) to upgrade to the Certificate of Accreditation (CoA) level. In this consultancy, Dr. Dimoso was the chairperson of the Technical Evaluation Committee appointed by Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU). Others of similar nature and the capacity he was performing in brackets are: Reviewing Bachelor of Science in Business Administration offered by Mbeya University College of Science and Technology (MUST) commissioned by Inter University Council of East Africa –IUCEA (Team member), reviewing Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Finance offered by the then Moshi University College of Business and Cooperatives (MUCCoBs) commissioned by Inter University Council of East Africa-IUCEA (Team member) and being a Chief Adviser and Senior Economist for all Catholic Church Development Projects in the Diocese of Morogoro appointed by his Lordship Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Morogoro.

• Pedagogical Leadership in Africa (PedaL) organized by PASGR conducted in Nairobi, Kenya, August 06 – 17, 2018.
• Books Publishing Workshop organized by COSTECH, VSO Tanzania and INASP, in collaboration with the Elsevier Foundation, Dar es Salaam, 18-20 November, 2014
• Journals Publishing Workshop organized by COSTECH, VSO Tanzania and INASP, in collaboration with the Elsevier Foundation, Dodoma, 15-17October, 2014
• Peer Reviewing training for University Academic Programmes in East Africa, March 9^th – 20^th, 2014. Nairobi Kenya
• OSSREA Gender Mainstreaming Training 2013-2, 19^th – 30^th August 2013. Nairobi, Kenya.

• Africa-Asia University Dialogue for Education Development Network sponsored by the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University, June 11^th, 2 to June 13^th, 2019 at Hiroshima University, Japan.
• PhD Public Defense (Viva Voce) as PhD panel member and the External Examiner, School of Public Health, The University of Zambia.
• PhD Public Defense (Viva Voce) as PhD panel member and the candidate’s co-supervisor, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. November 16^th, 2018.
• Pedagogical Leadership in Africa (PedaL): September 6^th – 17^th , 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya
• Third General Assembly of the Africa-Asia University Dialogue for Educational Development Network Phase IV at Hiroshima University, Japan, from June 14th to June 17th, 2017.
• Socio-economic enquiries in three countries (3) of Africa and Middle East (Egypt. Jordan and Israel: April 27^th – May 11^th, 2017.
• Resource utilization and environmental protection discussion forum with scholars of Jiangxi academy from April 26th to April 28th, 2016
• Second General Assembly of the Africa-Asia University Dialogue for Educational Development Network Phase IV at Hiroshima University, Japan, 2015
• Lake Victoria Basin Commission: December 13^th – 14^th, 2012 at City Royal Hotel in Bugolobi, Kampala, Uganda.
• Lake Victoria Basin Research Initiatives: October 22^nd – 24^th , 2012 at Botanical Imperial Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda.
• Dissemination Conference on Sero-Behavioural Studies for Universities, Review Gender and Right Based Approaches Mainstreaming Toolkit and Plan for Implementation of Model Interventions organized by Inter University Council of East Africa (IUCEA) from 13-14 March 2012 in Entebbe, Uganda
• AFRIQ’UNIT final workshop on Learning Outcome and Impact of AFRIQ’UNIT Project in East African Universities from 2-5 March. 2011 in Kampala, Uganda.
• The East African Chapter of the Research and Innovation Management Association (EARIMA) from 16-18 March 2011 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Reform Programme in Tanzania from 12-14 April, 2011 at Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
• The 8^th International Conference organized by the International Society for

Intercommunication of New Ideas (ISINI) from 24-27 August 2005 in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

• The 12^th Congress of European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) from 26 – 29 August, 2008 in Ghent, Belgium – I presented a paper on “Environmental degradation and intra-household labour allocations in the Tanzanian rural south Pare highlands.”
• The Colloquium - Financial capability and household financial management, organized by the chair group of Economics of Consumers and Households (ECH) of Wageningen University, in collaboration with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) and CentiQ, a Dutch group of institutions aiming at improving consumer financial decision making, from 11 – 13 December, 2008 in Wageningen, the Netherlands .
• Joint conference by International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) and Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) on "Behavioural Economics, Economic Psychology: Theory and Policy" at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; from 7 – 11 July 2009.