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Andrew M. Mpamo was born in 1954 in Butare, Huye District; he is married and has 6children. He did his primary and secondary education in Tanzania. In 1978 he was selected to join National Book-keeping Certificate at the Dar es salaam School of Accountancy also in Tanzania. He was first employed in 1979 by the Ministry of Finance and Planning of Tanzania, where he worked up to 1983. In 1981 and 1982, was again sent back to Dar es salaam School of Accountancy to pursue National Accountancy Diploma.
From 1983-1989 Mr Andrew M. Mpamo, joined the Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service - TCRS (a department of the Lutheran World Service) as a branch accountant in Mishamo, Burigi and Ulyankuru refugee Settlements. Mishamo and Ulyankuru were camps for refugees from Burundi, while the Burigi settlement hosted Rwandese refugees who were chased from Uganda by the Obote regime.

1989-1994, Mr. Mpamo joined the Community Development Trust Fund of Tanzania (CDTF) as their Deputy Chief Accountant. This is an NGO dealing with the rural populations of Tanzania, with an objective to increase their standard of living.

1995 Andrew M. Mpamo returned home from exile, where he had been staying for 35 years. In Rwanda he joined the Ministry of Defense as an Accountant, where he stayed for about 8 years up to 2003.

2003-Todate, Andrew M. Mpamo joined the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology as Principal Accountant income generating activities, mostly dealing with the part-time students’ tuition fees. Mpamo is the person who introduced the system of students’ card in KIST and managed the Institution to recover more than 300,000,000frw from the students, especially part time management students.

While in Kigali Institute of Science and Technology. Mr Mpamo was selected to join Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration, and he successfully completed in 2005 with second lower class. This led to the award of exemption of ACCA part 1 and two subjects in ACCA part2 by the ACCA Office in UK.

In 2006 Andrew Mpamo was appointed Director of Students’ Services in Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Where he is dealing with students’ affairs on daily basis. Again it is in this Directorate, where he managed to introduce 100% mutuelle de sante to all government sponsored students, and it is well operating.

Currently Andrew M. Mpamo is pursuing Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) “specializing in Project Management” offered by Maastricht School of Management-Outreach Programs. And now, Mr. Mpamo is doing dissertation on the Impact of Microfinance in improving the standard of living of its clients in Rwanda.

Mr. Andrew M.Mpamo, is a gacaca judge elected in 2006, he is one of the group assigned to jugde the category one of the Genocide suspects in the Kanombe sector of Kicukiro District.

Email: dss@kist.ac.rw or mpamo4@yahoo.com

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