Courses and Disciplines taught at WBS:
Advanced Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance; Capital Budgeting and Project Finance; Investment Banking; Investments
Other notable graduate teaching experience
Wits School of Property Studies (Real Estate Finance; Commercial Real Estate Investments)
Visiting professor at African Economic Research Consortium (Financial Economics); University of Cape Town (International Finance for Development); Strathmore University (Investments); United States International University, Africa (Money and Capital Markets – undergraduate)
Research Interests
Development Finance, Economic Growth, Asset Pricing, and Corporate Finance
Industry and professional experience
Odongo is finance scholar and practitioner with many years of experience in development finance and asset pricing research, valuation, financial modeling, risk analysis, and impact assessment. He has consulted for or advised many private sector organizations, development finance institutions, and governmental agencies including Libya Oil, African Development Bank, African Capacity Building Foundation, USAID; Department of Public Enterprises, South Africa; Government of Limpopo, South Africa, and many others, on issues such as: understanding the financial risk of a proposed acquisition, mobilization and absorption of financial and fiscal resources, assessment of Africa’s infrastructure financing capacity, impact evaluation of enterprise support programs, and enabling youth employment. He has participated in the preparation of African Development Bank’s premier publication, “African Economic Outlook”.
Odongo is also a founder director of Thako Capital, a research, advisory and consulting enterprise with expertise in development finance/economics, financial modelling, valuation, corporate governance, risk appraisal and management, and index development and analytics, among others.