Leonard Mwesigwa

PhD Student, (he/him)
l.mwesigwa@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling
  • Policy & Planning
  • Urban

Areas of Interest

Urban Planning & Governance, Municipal Governance, Infrastructure Financing & Funding, Geostrategy & Geopolitics of infrastructure financing, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), Project Planning & delivery, Transportation Planning & Policy, Equitable mobility, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Planning in the Global South, Road Safety, African Urbanism.

Working Dissertation

Title

Examining the use of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in delivering equitable and efficient urban transit systems in African cities; the case of Bus Rapid Transit in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Supervisors

Prof. Matti Siemiatycki

Biography

Leonard Mwesigwa is a PhD Candidate in Planning at University of Toronto. He is a Professional Civil Engineer who has worked in both private and public sector organizations on several policy design and urban infrastructure development projects including City roads design and construction, Public transportation reform projects, Planning & design of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Signalization of traffic junctions, Development of multi-modal urban transport master plan, National transportation and logistics policy in Africa.

As a practicing Transport Planner, he is passionate about urban transit systems and his research aims at examining the potential use of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the effective delivery of equitable & sustainable urban transit systems in rapidly urbanizing African cities. Specifically, he is exploring how urban transit systems in Africa should be planned, financed and delivered in a neoliberal era.

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Planning, University of Toronto
Master of Business Administration-MBA (with Distinction), Edinburgh Business School - Heriot-Watt University, UK
MSc, Transportation Planning & Engineering (with Distinction), University of Newcastle, UK.
PGD in Project Planning & Management (with First Class), Uganda Management Institute, Uganda.
BEng, Civil & Building Engineering (with First Class), Kyambogo University, Uganda.

Cohort

  • 2020-2021