{"id":54566,"date":"2023-10-07T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwandan-diplomat-claver-gatete-appointed-head-of-uneca"},"modified":"2023-10-07T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T14:24:14","slug":"rwandan-diplomat-claver-gatete-appointed-head-of-uneca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/rwandan-diplomat-claver-gatete-appointed-head-of-uneca","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan diplomat Claver Gatete appointed head of UNECA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Ntarindwa<\/b><\/p>\n

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Claver Gatete has replaced Vera Songwe who, in August 2022, resigned from the position of Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Songwe, a celebrated Cameroonian economist, had also been the United Nations Under-Secretary-General.<\/p>\n

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday, October 6, appointed Rwanda\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb. Gatete, to lead UNECA. Antonio Maria Afonso Pedro, a Mozambican mineral exploration geologist had been the Acting Executive Secretary since September 2022.<\/p>\n

Gatete, a seasoned economist, brings to the position extensive strategic leadership expertise, coupled with international experience in the political and financial landscape of the African continent, Guterres\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The newly appointed UNECA boss served in senior positions in the Rwandan government, notably as Minister of Infrastructure from 2018 to 2022 and Minister of Finance and Economic Planning from 2013 to 2018.<\/p>\n

Gatete also served as Governor and Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda, and Secretary General and Secretary to the Treasury at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

He was Director General for Economic and Social Affairs in the Office of the President of Rwanda between 2000 and 2003, during which he served as the President\u2019s Representative to the New Partnership for Africa\u2019s Development and Coordinator of the National African Peer Review Mechanism.<\/p>\n

Gatete began his diplomatic career in 2005 and was based in London until 2009 as Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Iceland.<\/p>\n

Prior to this, he served as National Economist of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kigali and Economist of Agriculture and Agri-Food and of Statistics Canada, in Ottawa, Canada.<\/p>\n

Gatete holds a Bachelor\u2019s and a Master\u2019s degree in agricultural economics from the University of British Columbia in Canada.<\/p>\n

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