Rwanda / Singapore / Presentation of Credentials Ceremony, 30 July 2015

 

Rwanda / Singapore / Presentation of Credentials Ceremony, 30 July 2015

 

SINGAPORE, Singapore, July 30, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following foreign Ambassador presented its credentials to President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam in ceremony at the Istana today:

 

The High Commissioner of the Republic of Rwanda

His Excellency Guillaume Kavaruganda

 

HE GUILLAUME KAVARUGANDA

 

HIGH COMMISSIONER TO THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

 

REPUBLIC OF RWANDA

 

 

BORN:

13 February 1969, Nyarugenge-Kigali, Rwanda

 

AGE:

46

 

MARITAL

STATUS:

Married to Alda Ntezilizaza

 

 

EDUCATION:

Master Degree in International Law and European Union Laws, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 1997

 

Undergraduate in Law, University of Perugia, Italy, October 1995

 

Secondary School, College Saint Andre, Rwanda, 1989

 

CAREER:

Apr 1999 –

July 2002

First Secretary, Rwanda Embassy in Washington DC, USA

 

July 2002 –

Dec 2005

Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Rwanda in Geneva and Rwandan Embassy in Switzerland

 

2006 – 2010

Lecturer in International Law for Development, Kigali Independent University

 

28 Jan 2006 –

15 Sep 2009

Director of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

 

CAREER:

(cont’d)

15 Sep 2009 –

28 May 2010

In charge of Northern Europe. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Rwanda

 

May 2010 –

July 2015

Minister Counsellor in Netherlands

 

July 2015

High Commissioner to Singapore

 

LANGUAGE :

Fluent in Italian, French, English and Kinyarwanda.

Moderate in Swahili

 

HOBBIES :

Reading fiction and non-fiction, writing articles on social issues and cinema

 

SOURCE 

Singapore – Ministry of Foreign Affairs