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Rector

 
Dr. MUJAWAMARIYA Jeanne d'Arc : Rector, KIST

Prior to this appointment, she served as Rwanda’s Minister of Gender and Family Promotion ,Education; Minister of State in Charge of Higher Education; Minister of State in Charge of Primary and Secondary Education in the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research; Administration Secretary in Charge of Hydrocarbons, Department of Energy in the Infrastructure's Ministry, MININFRA (formerly MINITRAPE), Rwanda; and was Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Faculty of Education, Department of Biology & Chemistry at the National University of Rwanda.

She has published several papers in reputed international journals (including Sensor and Actuators, Talanta, Analytical Chemistry, IEEE-Sensor) and authored a paper presented at the International Conference on Sensors, which took place in November, 2000 in Pune, India.

She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemistry from the Russian Peoples' Friendship University, Moscow-Russia and her PhD in Physical-Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

She is fluent in five languages (Kinyarwanda, French, Russian, English and Swahili).