{"id":75943,"date":"2024-06-13T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/who-is-mutesi-rusagara-the-34-year-old-new-state-minister-in-charge-of-public-investment"},"modified":"2024-06-13T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:59:53","slug":"who-is-mutesi-rusagara-the-34-year-old-new-state-minister-in-charge-of-public-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/who-is-mutesi-rusagara-the-34-year-old-new-state-minister-in-charge-of-public-investment","title":{"rendered":"Who is Mutesi Rusagara, the 34-year-old new state minister in charge of public investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Linda Mutesi Rusagara, 34, was on June 12, appointed as state minister in charge of resource mobilisation and public investment at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), by President Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n

Rusagara replaces Jeannine Munyeshuli who was dismissed from the position on June 3, a decision that was announced in a Communique\u0301 issued by the Office of the Prime Minister. Responsibilities under her position include identifying and analysing strategic opportunities for profit-oriented public investments leading to the economic growth and transformation of the country.<\/p>\n

Experience<\/p>\n

Until her appointment to the Cabinet position, Rusagara was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Agaciro Development Fund \u2013 Rwanda’s sovereign wealth fund since September 2023.<\/p>\n

The fund\u2019s vision is to be a sovereign wealth fund sufficiently endowed to improve the level of financial autonomy of Rwanda as a nation.<\/p>\n

Earlier, she served as a Board Member of Capital Market Authority (CMA), from April 2023 – March 2024.<\/p>\n

She was also the Managing Director of Kigali Innovation City \u2013 whose mission is to nurture and accelerate Rwanda\u2019s innovation ecosystem to position the country as a pan-African hub, from May 2019 to September 2023.<\/p>\n

Other positions she held include being the senior consultant for strategy and operations at Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, USA, where she was advising financial services clients on digital transformation, corporate innovation and divestitures, from September 2017 – April 2019. She has venture capital experience with Khosla Impact, a venture capital firm, in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

She also worked in the President of Rwanda\u2019s Strategy and Policy Unit, from January 2013 to July 2015; and at the Bank of Kigali \u2013 Rwanda\u2019s largest commercial bank — where she led investor relations; as well as held Board membership in Rwanda\u2019s Capital Market Authority (CMA), and BK Group.<\/p>\n

Education<\/p>\n

Rusagara holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) that she obtained from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, in USA, from 2015 \u2013 2017.<\/p>\n

She did her Bachelor of Business Science Finance at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa, from 2007 \u2013 2010.<\/p>\n

Linda Mutesi Rusagara was appointed the State Minister in charge of resource mobilisation and public investment at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN).<\/p>\n\r\n