{"id":2000130460,"date":"2026-10-27T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000130460"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:38:55","slug":"who-is-claudette-mukashyaka-rwandas-new-auditor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/who-is-claudette-mukashyaka-rwandas-new-auditor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Claudette Mukashyaka, Rwanda\u2019s new Auditor General?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mukashyaka replaces Alexis Kamuhire, who was appointed in 2021, while Kubwimana succeeds Patrick Habimana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukashyaka is an audit professional with more than 15 years of experience in internal auditing and four years in external auditing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2021, she has served as Chief Audit Executive at I&M Bank Rwanda Plc. She has also worked at the Office of the Auditor General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is Vice President of the Institute of Internal Auditors Rwanda, representing the private sector. She also chairs the Audit Committee of the Board of the Parliament of Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukashyaka holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics from the University of Rwanda, where she graduated with distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her professional qualifications include the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) credentials. She is also an Internal Audit Quality Assessor and an ACCA member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her ACCA studies, she received a certificate of commendation after ranking first in Rwanda and 31st globally in the Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA) examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukashyaka was also selected for the second cohort of the Africa Future Leaders programme, organised by the Central Bank of Egypt to develop banking leaders from across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her areas of expertise include corporate governance, risk management, internal audit systems and banking operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Kubwimana, the newly appointed Deputy Auditor General, has served as Director General of Fiscal Decentralization at Ministry of finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) since 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before that, he held finance and internal audit positions at the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA), the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, and the former Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds a master\u2019s degree in Finance and a bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kubwimana is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda (ICPAR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claudette Mukashyaka has been appointed Rwanda\u2019s new Auditor General.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2. Gratien Kubwimana has been appointed Rwanda\u2019s new Deputy Auditor General.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rwanda\u2019s Cabinet, chaired by President Paul Kagame on October 26, 2026, appointed Claudette Mukashyaka as the new Auditor General of State Finances and Gratien Kubwimana as Deputy Auditor General. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000130461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"archived_slugs":[],"footnotes":"","igh_game_id":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[151,69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000130460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8,"twitter_handle":""}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8,"twitter_handle":""}],"featured_image":{"id":2000130461,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/10\/Mukashyaka.jpg","alt":"","caption":"Claudette Mukashyaka has been appointed Rwanda\u2019s new Auditor General.","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1286,"height":1800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/10\/Mukashyaka-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/10\/Mukashyaka-214x300.jpg","width":214,"height":300},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/10\/Mukashyaka-768x1075.jpg","width":768,"height":1075},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/10\/Mukashyaka-732x1024.jpg","width":732,"height":1024},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/10\/Mukashyaka.jpg","width":1286,"height":1800}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000130460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000130460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000130460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000130464,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000130460\/revisions\/2000130464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000130461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000130460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000130460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000130460"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000130460"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000130460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}