Dr. Paul Kiumbe Mburu is a Lecturer of Project Planning and Management in the Department of Business and Economics in the school of business at Karatina University, Kenya. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Education from Moi University (1996), Masters of Arts (Project Planning and Management) University of Nairobi (2010). He later obtained his Doctorate in Project Planning and Management University of Nairobi (2018).

His research interests are in the areas of management of community development projects and Monitoring and Evaluation.

He has published his work in research publications including International Journal of Research and Development (IJRD) and International Organizational of Scientific research (IOSR), International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (IJRBS).

He is a member of the editorial board in the Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, London, the publishers of African Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (AJIE) that is indexed by IBSS, EBSCO and SABINET. It is accredited by DHET (the South African regulator of Higher Education). 

He was Tutorial Fellow as from 2012 in the Business and Economics Department, he was appointed to the position of a Lecturer in 2018 a position he holds up to date.

• Paul Kiumbe, Fredrick Muniu, & Alice Nderi, (2024) Capacity Building Strategies and Performance of Fish farming Projects in Kenya. International Journal of Current Business and Social Sciences | IJCBSS, Vol. 10, Issue. 3, 2024 ISSN: 2312-5985
• Muniu, Dr. Alice Nderi, and Paul Kiumbe (2024)   Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration and Sustainability of Community Water Resource Projects, International Journal Of Management Studies And Social Science Research Ijmsssr Vol6, Issue3 May- June 2024  ISSN: 2582-0265 
• Elizabeth W. Thiro ; Paul Kiumbe & Eunice Kagure (2023) Relationship between Green Supply Chain Practices and Sustainability of Tea Factories in Nyeri County, Kenya. International Journal of Arts and Social Science www.ijassjournal.com ISSN: 2581-7922, Volume 6 Issue 9, September 2023
• Jinaro, Macharia & Kiumbe (2022) Combined Influence of Choice of Media Channel, Timing of Media Messages, And Frequency of Media Messages on Perception of Wildlife Conservation Discourse in Kenya. Journal of Communication and Media Research. ISSN 2141 – 5277. Vol. 14, No. 1 April 2022
• Kariuki, P., Ombaka, B., & Kiumbe, P. (2022). Public Participation and Performance of Chattered Public Universities in Kenya. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Socia lSciences, 12(9), 1835 – 1849.
• Jinaro, Macharia & Kiumbe (2021) Influence of Content Framing on the Relationship Between Media and Audience Perception of Wildlife Conservation Discourse in Kenya. Caleb Journal of Social and Management Science. CJSMS Vol. 6, No 1, 2021. ISSN: 2504-9518
• Peter Kariuki , Beatrice Ombaka, Paul Kiumbe (2021)   Influence of corporate governance on performance of public universities in Kenya. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science IJRBS VOL 10 NO 7 ISSN: 2147-4478
• Peter Kariuki , Beatrice Ombaka, Paul Kiumbe (2021). Sustainability strategies and performance of public universities in Kenya. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science.  IJRBS VOL 10 NO 7 ISSN: 2147-4478
• Paul K Mburu, Lydiah N. Wambugu, , Stephen W. Luketero,. (2018). Influence of Stakeholder Participation in M&E During project design on Performance of fish farming projects. International Journal of Applied Research and Studies (iJARS) ISSN: 2278-9480 Volume VII, Issue 6 (June – 2018)  
• Kiumbe, P.M, Wambugu, L.N, Luketero, S.W. (2018). Influence of Stakeholder Participation in utilization of M&E results on Performance of fish farming projects. Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 23, Issue 9, Ver. 5 (September. 2018) 65-70 e-ISSN: 2279-0837 7, p-ISSN: 2279-0845.