Rutaro Abas is the Deputy Director Planning and Development, Grants and International Relations at Kampala International University (KIU). Prior to that, Rutaro has been a Lecturer at the College of Economics and Management at the same institution, a Lecturer at the School of Business and Public Management Mount Kenya University, Kigali Campus, and the Head of Department for Economics and Business at the Kigali Institute of Education. He was also a Managing Partner with East Elites Consult Limited.

He has been an Assistant Lecturer School of Business, and the Deputy Director Admissions at KIU. Rutaro has over 10 year’s research experience and has been instrumental in the development of curriculum and modules for Distance Learning Programmes for a number of courses at the institution. 

Rutaro is highly proficient in project planning, accounting, financial management and analysis and strategic planning and works relentlessly to maintain the standards at the Kampala International University (KIU) as seen through his commitment to its community.