{"id":46654,"date":"2022-09-18T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-presidential-advisory-council\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T14:31:24","slug":"kagame-presidential-advisory-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-presidential-advisory-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame chairs Presidential Advisory Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s Presidency has revealed that the Head of State chaired the council on Saturday 17th September 2022 on his visit to New York in the United States of America (USA).   <\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by leaders including The Secretary-General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Louise Mushikiwabo; Pastor Rick Warren; Senior Economic Advisor to the President, Francis Gatare; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vincent Biruta; the Minister of ICT and Innovation, Paula Ingabire and Dr. \u00c9liane Ubalijoro, a lecturer at McGill University in Montr\u00e9al, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>PAC is comprised of Dr. Donald Kaberuka, the former President of Africa Development Bank (AfDB); Scott Ford, a Scottish businessman; Kaia Miller the founder of Aslan Global; Michael Fairbanks, an economic expert who served as a lecturer at Harvard Business School; Prof. Michael Porter; Michael Roux who once overseen Rwanda\u2019s interests in Australia and Dr. Paul Davenport who headed Alberta University among others.  <\/p>\n<p>The meeting takes time at a time when Rwanda\u2019s economy continues to recover following effects of COVID-19 pandemic.  <\/p>\n<p>The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) recently announced that Rwanda\u2019s economy increased by 7.5% in the second quarter of 2022 compared to the same period last year.  <\/p>\n<p>The economy is also projected to grow by 6% in 2022.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44258 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52365090095_00c269a4c1_b-6c879.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44259 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fc4j8paxoamigpq-837df.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44256 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fc4j8paxoaah-dv-b3a92.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44260 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fc4j8o9x0ae_ktr-ef980.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44261 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52363739122_b9cf2e313e_b-7195a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44262 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52364672781_b7a6308741_b-8545a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44263 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52364886719_0b8d5f0f6b_b-005a7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has chaired the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) which convenes Rwandan and international experts to offer strategic advice to the President and the Government of Rwanda.}<\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","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\/46654","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=46654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46654"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46654"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}