In this exclusive Q&A Interview on WELLNESS THROUGH THE EYES OF AFRICAN WOMEN, Hon. Soraya M. Hakuziyaremye, the Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda shares what wellness mean to her as an African woman and how she prioritizes it. Hon. Soraya also opens up about her go-to wellness practices, plus her biggest lesson/realization about financial wellness.
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Biography:
Bank of Rwanda
Hon. Soraya Munyana HAKUZIYAREMYE was appointed Deputy Governor of the National
Bank of Rwanda in March 2021.
Prior to that, she served as Rwanda's Minister of Trade and Industry from October 2018 to
March 2021; she began her tenure as a Cabinet Member right after her time as Senior Vice
President in the Financial Institutions/Financial Markets Risk Department at ING Bank in
London.
Hon. Soraya M. HAKUZIYAREMYE has had an extensive career in global banking; she worked
in various positions at BNP Paribas Group in Paris, Fortis Bank and the Bank of New York
Mellon in Brussels. She also served as Senior Advisor to Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
from 2012 to 2014.
She holds a postgraduate degree in International Management from the Thunderbird Graduate
School of Global Management in the U.S., as well as a Masters in Business Engineering
(Ingénieur de Gestion) from the Solvay Business School at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in
Belgium.