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Roger Aganze

Assistant Professor School of Business and Law
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Email
roger.aganze.cibangala@uia.no
Phone
+47 38 14 19 45
Mobile phone
+47 40 33 44 60
Office
17109 (Universitetsveien 17, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Background and experience

2026 - : Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway.

2022 - 2025: PhD student at the School of Business and Law, UiA 

05/2021 to 20/04/2022: Trainer in digital literacy at Secours Catholique, Chanteloup les Vignes, France 

March 2021: Participation in an international case study competition on sustainable companies and financing based on environmental, social, and governance criteria (Certified) 

03/06/2021-05/08/2021: Trainer in financial education, life coaching, and personal development with Learn-Do-Succeed 

02/2020 to 12/2020: Logistics officer at Karma Paris, France 

11/2020 to 02/2020: Logistics officer at Cubyn, Ile de France 

08/2019-12/2019: Inventory auditor at RGIS Paris, France 

05/2019: Events Coordinator, Hult International Business School in Paris, France 

07/2016-09/2018: Junior lecturer and Teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Bukavu, Congo 

08/2015 to 04/2016: Customer relationship officer at FINCA RD Congo 

Areas of responsibility

Roger Aganze works as a Research fellow and assistant professor at the Center for Research on Social Entreprises and Microfinance Institutions (CERSEM). Expertise: Business, Microeconomics, Financial inclusion and development, and Applied Economics. 

His research focuses on understanding the financial inclusion of disadvantaged individuals at the bottom of the pyramid. 

He holds a master's degree in Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), a master's degree in Transport and Logistics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), and a master's degree in Financial Management from the Université Catholique de Bukavu (Dem. Rep. of Congo).  

 

Teaching

Microeconomics

Theory of Knowledge and Core Theories in Management

Statistics and Quantitative Methods

Business Economics

Production and Operation Management

Applied Econometrics

Research

Savings groups

Microeconomics

International Business

Entrepreneurship

Applied Econometrics

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Research groups

Publications

  • Cibangala, Roger Aganze; Mersland, Roy; D’Espallier, Bert & Andersson, Kjetil (2025). Determinants of Sustainability of Informal Community-Based Financial Groups: Insights from a Survival Analysis Approach. Journal of Development Studies. ISSN 0022-0388. 61(10), p. 1660–1682. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2025.2487014. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Cibangala, Roger Aganze (2025). Essays on Savings Groups. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 9788284272986. Full text in Research Archive

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Published Apr. 16, 2024 11:16 AM - Last modified June 10, 2026 9:12 AM