Senior Manager, Energy Investments Hector has vast experience working the financial services sector. He has held various senior management posts for over 13 years, previously with the former Housing Bank of Rwanda, then with the Development Bank of Rwanda. Prior to the current post of Senior Manager in charge of Energy Investments, he occupied respectively [...]
Cyrille is currently the Advisor to the Minister of State in charge of Economic Planning at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning since November 2014.Prior to that, he served as the Director of Government Portfolio Management Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning where his core responsibilities fall under promoting best practices in [...]
Rutabingwa Athanase is an advocate with the Rwanda Bar Association since April 2000 to date. He is a Partner with MRB Attorneys. He holds an LL.B Degree from the National University of Rwanda and currently a finalist at the LUNDI University - Master of Science in International Trade Policy and Trade Law. Mr. Rutabingwa is [...]
Agnes has 16 years’ experience in the areas of statistical analysis, strategic planning, monitoring the implementation of planned activities, tax policy analysis, revenue forecasting and tax administration performance monitoring. She holds a Masters of Arts in Policy Economics, Bachelor of Statistics degree; and serves on numerous other Boards. Kanyangeyo is currently the Deputy Commissioner for [...]
div align='justify'>Mr. Eric Rwigamba is the Director General of the Financial Sector development for the Rwanda Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. In this capacity, he oversees a variety of nationally important initiatives related to the financial sector development (banks, MFI, SACCOs, insurance, pension and capital markets). Before joining the Ministry, he was the Technical [...]
Khartoum (Sudan), 12th June 2016 – The Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) has entered into a US$15 million facility agreement with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) to boost the Bank’s lending to the private sector. The signing ceremony was held on Sunday 12th June 2016 in Khartoum (Sudan) at BADEA’s headquarter. [...]
BRD awarded among the best performing DFIs in Africa Lusaka May 24, 2016 – Lusaka Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) has been recognized among the top 10 best performing development finance institutions (DFIs) in Africa at the ongoing 42nd Ordinary General Assembly meeting of the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) in Lusaka, Republic [...]
During the course of the year 2015, Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) concluded its restructuring process to align the bank’s operations and management to its new expanded and refocused mandate of a purely Development Finance Institution (DFI) following the disposal of the commercial retail banking activities (equivalent to 31% of its business) to Atlas Mara [...]
The following is a timeline of events leading to the acquisition of a portion of BRD's assets to Atlas Mara 6th April 2014 The Government of Rwanda, Rwanda Social Security Board (“RSSB”), National Agricultural Export Development Board (“NAEB”), and Development Bank of Rwanda (“BRD”) have today signed with Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited (“Atlas Mara”) a [...]
As the Government of Rwanda’s investment arm, BRD’s financial development objectives focused on the priority sectors of the economy. It aimed at becoming the first stop for all long term investments into Rwanda’s key sectors and to be the prime driver of viable private sector investments. BRD has long been and is still the main [...]
