{"id":37669,"date":"2018-06-08T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/akamanzi-for-honorary-doctorate\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T13:10:18","slug":"akamanzi-for-honorary-doctorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/akamanzi-for-honorary-doctorate\/","title":{"rendered":"Akamanzi for honorary doctorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akamanzi will be presented the doctorate during the university\u2019s spring convocation ceremonies that will take place on June 11th, 12th and 13th 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the ceremony, Akamanzi will be awarded along other ten individuals who have made their mark in the fields of law, art, Indigenous rights, journalism, nanoscience, business and philanthropy. <\/p>\n<p>According to the university, the honorands join more than 5,600 students who will receive their degrees and diplomas.<\/p>\n<p>{{About Akamanzi}}<\/p>\n<p>An international trade and investment lawyer, Clare Akamanzi received a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School (HKS). She received awards for academic excellence and distinguished contributions to the HKS community.<\/p>\n<p>Akamanzi also holds an LLM (with distinction) in International Trade and Investment from the University of Pretoria as well as an LLB (Honors) from Makerere University, Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>During her international career, Akamanzi has worked as a commercial diplomat in London and a Trade Negotiator at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, she was named Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and a year later was selected as one of Africa\u2019s Top 20 Leading Women in Economic Development by Forbes. <\/p>\n<p>On the agenda of the ceremony, Akamanzi will address the John Molson School of Business on June 13.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25706 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/clare_akamanzi-5-aded7-d614b.jpg\" alt=\"Clare Akamanzi will be awarded with a honorary doctorate by Concordia University in Canada \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Chief Executive Officer, Ms Clare Akamanzi will be awarded with a honorary doctorate by Concordia University in Canada for her contribution to improvement of business environment, private sector development and standards of living for Rwandans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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}],"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}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37669","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37669"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37669"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}