{"id":41405,"date":"2020-05-19T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cabinet-approves-new-rdb-board-members\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:59:34","slug":"cabinet-approves-new-rdb-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cabinet-approves-new-rdb-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves new RDB board members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evelyn Kamagaju was appointed Vice-Chairman while other seven board members include Alice Nkulikiyinka, Diane Karusisi,  Ivan Kagame, Eric Kacou, Solange Uwituze, Liban Soleman Abdi and Faith Keza.<\/p>\n<p>Uwituze has served as the Deputy Director-General in Charge of Animal Resources and Technology Transfer at Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB) since 2018. She has a Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition and a Master\u2019s degree in Animal Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Kagame holds an MBA from the University of California. He is an entrepreneur and investor mainly in renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Kacou is an Ivorian national and the Co-Founder of Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners, a firm that offers consultancy to businesses. <\/p>\n<p>Kacou\u2019s operations in Rwanda started with his OTF Group, a firm that played a role in developing competitiveness in the country\u2019s human capital in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. He has also led the Rwanda National Innovation and Competitiveness Program.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35678 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-3199-b01b2.jpg\" alt=\"Itzhak Fisher remains the chairman, a position he has held since November 2017.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35679 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/2-59-99aa1.png\" alt=\"Evelyn Kamagaju was appointed Vice-Chairman\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35680 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-2555-5c505.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Nkulikiyinka, the country director of Business Professionals Network\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35681 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/diane-karusisi-the-ceo-of-bk-70394.jpg\" alt=\"Diane Karusisi is the CEO of the Bank of Kigali\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35682 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-1343-25c9a.jpg\" alt=\"Uwituze has served as the Deputy Director-General in Charge of Animal Resources and Technology Transfer at Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB) since 2018.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35683 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-1759-01f39.jpg\" alt=\"Ivan Kagame is an entrepreneur and investor mainly in renewable energy.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35684 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-1546-68215.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Kacou is an Ivorian national and the Co-Founder of Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners, a firm that offers consultancy to businesses. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35685 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/faith-keza-2-500x500-ec608.jpg\" alt=\"Faith Keza is the CEO of Irembo \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cabinet, on May 18, appointed new Board of Directors at Rwanda Development Board with Itzhak Fisher remaining the chairman, a position he has held since November 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41405","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41405"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41405"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}