Mr. Augustus Seminega holds a Bachelor of science degree in Economics and Statistics from Makerere University, Uganda; a Post Graduate Diploma in purchasing Management and a Technical Certificate.

He is a former Director General of Rwanda Public Procurement Authority, RPPA (2006-2020). Before that, he had served under different capacities, including : Director of Administration and Finance and later Director General of the Common Development Fund, CDF) (now LODA, 2002-2006), Director of Branch Network at Union des Banques Populaires du Rwanda, UBPR (Now BPR), Director of Cooperatives in the Ministry of Youth and Cooperatives and later Ministry of Commerce, Volunteer Social Mobiliser and a Teacher.
Mr. Augustus Seminega has extensive experience in Public Administration in general and more particularly in public financial management including public procurement, financial reporting ; and human resource management. He contributed to the reform of the public procurement system in Rwanda into a transparent, fair and efficient system. His other areas of experience are cooperatives, microfinance and teaching.

Josephine is Rwandan, Former  Country Director of ActionAid Rwanda with a wide experience in strategic leadership, programme development, policy analysis and promoting rights. She has served in various senior leadership positions in various organisations in Africa in Social and Economic Development sector.

Josephine has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) of Maastricht School of Management, specialising in Project Management and Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and Social Administration (SWSA) of Makerere University. She has served in different capacities in the Social Development Sector with special focus on Women and Children’s Rights for over three decades. She is a member of the World Foundation for Children and Alumnae of Global Leaders Institute (2009). An Active promoter of Positive Living with HIV/AIDS and fight of HIV/AIDS as a Member of the International AIDS Society (IAS) and Activist in advocating for Women and Children’s Rights,

Josephine has extensive experience in Child Care and Protection of Vulnerable people including Refugees, People Living with Disabilities, HIV and AIDS through her work with Social Development and Childcare agencies, UNCHR and TASO (U). Promotion of people’s rights has been her passion as a Social Worker but also as a person that was directly affected by social cultural injustices as well a victim of 1959 genocide that culminated from divisive colonial tendencies and pre Independence crises. Promoting access to adequate financial services for women and girls is a basis for nation building.

Josephine is a Feminist and Women Rights Activist. She is a promoter of Girls’ Education and among the Founder members of Mary Hill Old Girls Association (MOGAR) that established a Girls School, championing Girl child education in Rwanda. She is passionate and committed to advocating for Gender Equality policies and change in practices that undermine women’s rights. She is a member of various Board of Directors including Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR-Rwanda), Pan African Heritage World Museum (PAHWM), University of Rwanda, Urunana Development Communication (UDC), Survivors’ Fund Rwanda (SURF), and Rwanda Institute of Sustainable Development (RISD).

Josephine’s Feminist leadership practice has supported the nurturing and sustaining a strong committed team driving the development commitments and promoting Women and Girls Rights using a Human Rights Based Approach. ActionAid Rwanda has also grown to become an organisation implementing women and child friendly environment policy establishing a Baby’s Room at the office to support mothers with young babies to work securely and happily.

Through her networking and relationship building, ActionAid Rwanda sustains stable and cordial working relations with government and other development partners at national, regional and global levels. ActionAid Rwanda has maintained its leadership role in the Network of INGOs in Rwanda as among the agencies that supported its founding more than a decade ago. Relationship building has enabled strong Partnerships and Recognition at national and regional levels.

Vincent MUNYESHYAKA is a season business and management expert with proven experience in Business Strategic Planning, Investment, Management, Corporate Finance and Capital markets development and regulations.

He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Business Development Fund (BDF) Ltd, the Rwandan leading Non-Bank Financial Institution in supporting MSMEs development by facilitating them to access financial services for job creation and economic empowerment through providing credit guarantees.

Vincent MUNYESHYAKA served at different leadership positions in Rwanda including Minister of Trade and Industry from August 2017 to October 2018, Minister of State in charge of Socio-Economic Development in the Ministry of Local Government from 2016 to August 2017 Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government from 2012 to 2016. He also served for other renown financial institutions including Banque Populaire du Rwanda, the National Bank of Rwanda and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.

He has also served as Board member for different institutions in the financial sector including Rwanda Capital Markets Advisory Council (CMAC), Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE), Banque Commerciale du Rwanda MATA TEA COMPANY from

Vincent MUNYESHYAKA holds a post graduate degree (D.E.S.S - Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Spécialisées from Institut Technique des Banques – Paris/FRANCE) in Finance and Banking as well as a bachelor’s degree in international economics.

Prof Aggée Shyaka Mugabe is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher at the University of Rwanda and Director of the Centre for Conflict Management (CCM) of the University of Rwanda. He holds a PhD in Political & Social Sciences with a focus on Transitional Justice & Peacebuilding from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; a Masters in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, and a Bachelor Degree in Communication from the former National University of Rwanda.

He is a Founder and Managing Director of the Centre for Governance and Peacebuilding – Great Lakes Region (CGP – GL). His publications focus on transitional justice, peacebuilding & conflict transformation, and reconciliation

Prof. Kagwiza Jeanne is a senior lecturer at College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda (CMHS, UR). She is a physiotherapist by professional and holds a PhD degree. Her PhD studies focused on holistic rehabilitation which uses biopsycho-social model and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), as a need to improve comprehensive health care for people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (PLWH) on Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) and with associated disability.

Richard MUSHABE is an Inclusive and Sustainable Development Policy Expert, a certified Public Finance Management Accountant by the Global Academy of Finance and Management (USA) and a Certified Monitoring & Evaluation Professional by Vantage Africa School of Leadership with over ten years of professional experience working in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda including leading the National Development Planning and Research Department. He is a consultant for international development organizations, private sector and civil society organizations. Key areas of expertise include; SDGs and AU Agenda 2063 implementation tracking, Projects and Programmes monitoring and Evaluation, Public Finance Management, Business Plan and Proposal writing, investment analysis and institutional re-engineering.
He possesses a Master of Arts in Economic Policy Management, Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Commerce

Mr. Anatole Mulindwa is currently serving as an acting head of research and home grown solutions department in Rwanda Governance Board (RGB). In 2021, he was appointed by the Government of Rwanda on the position of Applied Governance Research Analyst in RGB. He pursues PhD course in Data Science, Option Data Mining and holds a Master degree of Science in the Applied Statistics from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and also a Bachelors’ Degree in Applied Statistics of Economics from the National University of Rwanda. He is a board member of the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) in Rwanda. Before, he was a member of the national technical committee on reform processes of ombudsman office and a member of Rwanda Monitoring and Evaluation Organization (RMEO). He is very familiar in working with private sector and none state actors.

Mulindwa has proven an extended working experience for 14 years in data engineering, in planning, designing and implementing population and social-economic development studies applying quantitative and qualitative methods with project baseline surveys, middle and end-line project evaluations, project or program impact evaluation assessments, and academic researches. He is highly skilled in problem analysis with exploratory techniques, training big/complex datasets (administrative, primary or secondary data) using AI/ML algorithms in forecasting or predicting actionable solutions, survey designing and conceiving quantitative and qualitative data collection tools (online and offline), and training and supervising enumerators, data engineering and feature pre-processing, data quality assurance, reliability and validity, data visualization, tabulation and analysis using STATA, PYTHON, NVivo, CAPI-ODK, PowerBi and SPSS. He is the best report writer from preliminary findings report, draft report to final research publications. He is very conversant with media and social media platforms in dissemination and publication of research findings

Rose BAGUMA holds a master’s degree in project management from Maastricht University of Netherlands and a master’s degree in Public Procurement for Sustainable Development from Turin University of Italy offered in partnership with the International Labor Organization.

She is currently serving as the Head of Education Policy Department at the Ministry of Education.