Before his government and private sector work, Suruma worked as a professor of economics and management at Makerere University and at Florida A&M University. In 1987, he joined the Bank of Uganda, the country's central bank, as the director of research, serving in that capacity until 1990.
Before holding governmental or private sector roles, Suruma was an economics and management professor at Makerere University and Florida A&M University. In 1987, he became the research director for the Bank of Uganda, the central bank of his country, a role he continued until 1990.