Professor Owuor is an Associate Professor of Agribusiness Management, and holds a PhD in Agribusiness Mgt through a sandwich programme between Egerton University-Kenya and University of Kiel in Germany. He is the Center Leader/PI for the World Bank Funded African Center of Excellence in Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness Management(CESAAM) and doubles as the Director for Income Generating Units at Egerton University. Before his current responsibilities, George served Egerton University as Head of Department for Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness and also as the Managing Director for the Agro-based University Investment Company between 2017-2020. Prior to the above, George served as the regional Manager for the Collaborative research and post graduate programme (CMAAE) between 2011-2014, at the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), a capacity building and research programme that covers 17 universities in 13 countries in Eastern, Central and South Africa funded by a consortium of funders such as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, African Capacity Building Foundation, Alliance for Agreen Revolution in Africa, Future Agricultures, and with collaborations with FAO-Agricultural Investment Planning Division-Working on knowledge sharing on implementation of CAADP process, AFRACA-rural finance Knowledge Management Programme among others. George has successfully graduated 11 PhD students, over 15 Masters students and have over 40 publications in internationally refereed journals. His interest is in capacity building and Participatory Impact Assessment (IA) research work covering crop and livestock value chains.