Prof. Juliana M. Namada, is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and the Chair of the Department of Business Administration in the Chandaria School of Business, at united states International University Africa. She exemplifies this commitment through her groundbreaking research and success in securing competitive grants. Prof. Juliana holds a PhD and a Master’s in Business Administration, specializing in Strategic Management from the University of Nairobi. Her passion in online teaching has seen her acquire a Certificate in Learning Design and Technologies from Arizona State University in the United States of America. She serves as the chair of the Institutional Scientific Ethics Review Committee (ISERC), a review an institutional entity in charge of research quality at USIU-Africa.
Prof. Juliana’s academic journey is strongly rooted in organizational support and mentorship. AFAM is one of the major players and she is highly indebted. Her story is a mixed grill of hard work, resilience and God’s providence. After completing her doctoral course work in 2010 at the university of Nairobi, she explored opportunities which have shaped her academic and scholarship growth including, attending Africa Faculty Development Workshop (AFDW) from in June, 2012 in Kigali Rwanda an initiative by AFAM, which focused on writing the key components of dissertation and academic publication process. A research methodology training for PhD candidates which was conducted by Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) in August, 2012 in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia, which focused on scientific methodology and statistical analysis, finally in 2017-2018 she was awarded the prestigious Journal of Management Fellowship (AJOM) fellowship being the inaugural fellow, this fellowship saw her proceed to the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in North America for her postdoctoral research. Through this fellowship she has published with her mentor a ground breaking theoretical research exploring an extension of dynamic capability through introduction of ethical dynamic capability.
This was quite transformative and today she has never been the same!
Her research interests are in strategic management, competitive advantage, and online teaching & learning. Prof. Juliana has published widely and some of the key journals include Africa Journal of Management, International Journal of Strategy and Automation, African Journal of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Journal of Cooperative Studies, Journal of Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Management & Organization. She has published a total of 33 papers in Refereed Journals and 7 book chapters. Her notable recent publications include a 2025 theoretical paper co-authored with Knapp, J.R., and Doughan, W., titled “Dynamic Ethical Capabilities in Place and in Time,” which seeks to extend the theory of dynamic capabilities by adding ethical dynamic capability. In 2023, she co-authored with Kiarie B.K., “Towards Authentic Online Assessment of Learner Performance at United States International University-Africa,” a MasterCard Foundation e-Learning Initiative Working Paper Series on teaching and learning. Additionally, in 2021, Prof. Namada collaborated with Karimi, J.N., on research titled “Student Perceptions on Factors and Effect of Drug and Substance Abuse: A Case of United States International University-Africa,” published in the African Journal of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (AJADA).
She served as a global representative for Africa in the Academy of Management from 2016 to 2019 being the second global representative for Africa in the Academy of Management. She is the inaugural fellow of the Junior Faculty Fellowship of the Africa Journal of Management, which funded her Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the United States of America in 2018. She currently serves as an Executive Director at large for East Africa at the Africa Academy of Management, a position she has held for four years.
In terms of mentorship to students, Prof Juliana has supervised 12 doctoral students and 63 Masters students. She is the current patron of the university’s Research Club. She serves as a reviewer for the Academy of Management, the Africa Academy of Management, and the American Journal of Industrial and Business Management.
In terms of awards and recognition, Prof. Juliana was awarded a Thesis Writing Grant by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Junior Faculty Fellowship by Africa Journal of Management (AJOM), and the Best Instructor in X-Culture Business Simulation in Africa in 2019. In addition, she has won several internal and external grants, including one in authentic assessment in online education and drug addiction among university students. She was also recognized for her outstanding contributions to Open Access Publishing by the USIU-Africa Library and Information Center for the period 2024-2025. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) in an internal grant awarded by USIU-Africa to investigate the effect of drugs among university students.
When it comes to service to the profession and community, she is a Trained Peer Reviewer by the Commission for University Education (CUE) and serves as an External Examiner for Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and other local universities. At the community level, she serves on several boards in secondary schools in her rural county. She served as a member of the Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) of Shrine of Mary Help of Christians – Don Bosco Upper Hill and was a Moderator of a small Christian community for seven years. She is a benefactor for Bosco boys- a Christian rehabilitation centre of street children.
In terms of Professional membership, Prof. Juliana belongs to;
- Academy of Management (AOM)
- Africa Academy of Management (AFAM).
- Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
- Comparative & International Education Society (CIES)
