Dr David Rutambuka is a former Rwandan 1st and 2nd Division football player and a former football referee with the FFF – Fédération Française de Football in the Central Region.

He is currently a professor of marketing and an assistant professor of marketing and data analysis at the ICD Business School – Paris and a researcher at the @Laboratoire de Recherche Appliquée (LaRA). He holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the Université Paris Dauphine – PSL. His main research interests focus on mergers and acquisitions, customer satisfaction, and artificial intelligence in football.

David has extensive experience in business development services, where he worked for five years as operations manager for Rwanda’s Private Sector Federation. He teaches marketing data analysis, artificial intelligence, market research, strategic management and research methodology courses. He also has international experience as a visiting professor at Almaty Business School (Kazakhstan), ADA University (Azerbaijan) and Université Centrale de Tunis (Tunisia).