Agenda

Josephine Nyiranzeyimana is currently serving as Government Chief Information Officer at the Rwanda Information Society Authority. Before this, she worked with the Ministry of Youth and ICT (MYICT) as acting Director General in charge of ICT from March 2016 to April 2017, and Principal Senior Technologist in charge of ICT Private Sector Development since October 2015. She holds a Master’s of Science in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with concentration in Electronics and Communication Systems Engineering from the National University of Rwanda. She also serves as a member of the national steering committee for African Centres of Excellence project.

Previously, she worked as Education Support Manager at Intel Corporation supporting the Rwandan Ministry of Education on the "ICT for Education" project, a project to incorporating technology in the Rwandan education system. She has also worked at Clinton Health Access Initiative as Technology Coordinator, where she managed the implementation of the In-Hospital Network for the e-health project. She served as a member on the Board of Trustees for the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking since 2015 to 2017.

Dr. Nsabimana Ernest is the Director General of the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) since December 2020. RURA regulates all utilities including Telecommunications, Transport, Energy, Water and Sanitation services, among others. He also serves as Rwanda’s Counselor to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
 
Prior to joining RURA, Dr. Ernest worked as the Vice Mayor in charge of Urbanization and Infrastructure, City of Kigali; Principal of IPRC Karongi, one of the colleges of Rwanda Polytechnic (RP); Research advisor at African Railway Center of Excellence at Addis Ababa Institute of Technology in Ethiopia; Senior lecturer of Civil Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Nairobi); Senior researcher at KRRI (Korea Railway Research Institute) and lecturer in Civil Engineering at Kyung Hee University and as Director of Academics/Quality Assurance, Integrated Polytechnic Region Center (IPRC Kigali) in Kigali.
 
He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from the former National University of Rwanda, a Master’s and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Kyung Hee University in the Republic of Korea.
 
Dr. Ernest’s areas of specialization and research are in Urban planning, building construction technology, smart transportation infrastructure, urban planning of utilities and smart and digital cities projects.
 
He serves in the City Council Meeting in charge of the Infrastructure and Urbanization Commission.

Peace is Executive Director of the Financial Stability Directorate at the National Bank of Rwanda since April 2016.

The Directorate’s core mandate is to ensure that the Rwandan Financial Sector is stable and sound, and achieves this primarily through the supervision of Banks, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, Micro-Finance Institutions, Payment System Providers (especially Mobile Financial Services Providers and Remittance Companies) as well as the financial market infrastructure including the Credit Reference Bureaus and Payment Systems. Prior to joining the NBR, Peace worked as a Business Advisory Consultant, as Chief Finance Officer at Ecobank in Rwanda and in Guinea Bissau, Head of Finance & Administration of Bank of Commerce, Development & Industry (BCDI) in Rwanda and as an Auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Uganda.
She is an Accountant by profession, a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA), a founding member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda (ICPAR) and holds an MBA in Finance from Oklahoma Christian University (USA) as well as a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree from Makerere University (Uganda).
Peace serves on the Monetary Policy as well as the Financial Stability Committees of the NBR, among others.

Ms. Faith Keza is the CEO of Irembo, a technology company that develops digital products focused on users in emerging markets. IremboGov, Irembo’s pioneer product, is a government services platform. To date, IremboGov has created access for over 8M citizens and foreigners to over 98 public services online and through a 4000 agent-strong network across Rwanda.

Prior to Irembo, Faith worked in Silicon Valley-California as a Software Engineer at Google, Delphix and Oracle, working on both enterprise and consumer software products. Faith graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Minor in Business Administration from the Sloan School of Management. She is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) and Rwanda Development Board (RDB).

Wilson Muyenzi is a Rwandan digital development expert with 17 years of experience in the ICT industry and skills development sector. He currently serves as a Senior Digital Development Specialist at the World Bank based in Kigali, Rwanda. He has led several projects for the Government of Rwanda namely eRwanda Project, Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme (preparation and launch phase) and the Skills Development Project, all financed by the World Bank as well as the 50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform Project at the East African Community Secretariat financed by AfDB.
Wilson led and oversaw the implementation of various ICT projects including ICT infrastructure and networks; software applications and digital platforms; mobile technologies; ICT policies and strategies; cyber security and skills development programmes. He has a strong passion for new and emerging technologies.

Wilson holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University in New York, USA and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology from University of Rwanda.

Aminata Amadou Garba is a Senior (Technology) Coordinator at the Telecommunications Network & Spectrum Management Division of the ITU Development Bureau. Her background is in communications technologies, policies and infrastructure.
She held several positions in telecommunications including Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Africa and Director General of the Multi-Sector Regulatory Authority of Niger. She received the masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University, Canada.

Before joining the Ministry of ICT and Innovation, Esther Kunda was the Policy, Innovation and Community of Scientists Manager at the Next Einstein Forum. She managed the development of NEF policy initiatives and worked closely with the NEF Community of Scientists on science engagement activities such as the NEF Africa Science Week across Africa.

Before joining NEF, she was at Intel as Education Support Manager and as product development for Tigo Rwanda. She has experience in product development, business strategy, policy and innovation.

She holds a Masters in Science in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from KIST.

Arlette Rwakazina works for Rwanda Utilities and Regulatory Authority as the General Manager in charge of Cybersecurity, Innovations and Strategic Integrations.

The department was established  with the aim of accommodating the ever-changing IT sector by ensuring that not only a conducive environment is  being put in place for different ICT based new solutions  such as FinTech,  but also by defining  boundaries within which they  must operate.
Prior to join RURA Arlette worked for more than 10 years in different sectors of the Telecom Industry including Mobile Financial Services and she holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunication and Control Engineering.