Edouard Ngirente

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Dr. Edouard Ngirente, image taken in 2018, from photographer / artist: Fiacozo
Édouard Ngirente, around 2018

Édouard Ngirente (* 1973 in Rwanda ) is Prime Minister of Rwanda.

Training, studies, professional activity

Ngirente studied in Rwanda and Belgium. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Université catholique de Louvain .

Before his appointment as Prime Minister, he worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC and in a leading position in the Ministry of Finance and Economics in Rwanda.

Political career

The non-party Édouard Ngirente was appointed as the new head of government and prime minister of the Republic of Rwanda on August 30, 2017 by the re-elected head of state of Rwanda in the 2017 presidential elections, Paul Kagame . Ngirente succeeds Anastase Murekezi and is the eleventh prime minister since Rwanda's independence in 1962 and the sixth prime minister since the genocide in Rwanda .

In several online articles published after his appointment, he is described as little known in Rwanda; among others in “the kigalian”, a Rwandan online magazine, and in “ The EastAfrican ”, an English-language weekly newspaper from Kenya .

Private

Ngirente is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Édouard Ngirente  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d government website. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ German Foreign Office. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Fischer Weltalmanach 2019, page 378 (book edition)
  4. ↑ a b c Who is the new Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente? The New Times (Rwandan newspaper), August 31, 2017, accessed January 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ President Kagame named little-known technocrat as PM. The EastAfrican , August 30, 2017, accessed January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ngirente, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ngirente, Edouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rwandan politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Rwanda