Louise MUSHIKIWABO
- General Secretary
- Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
Bio
Louise Mushikiwabo is the current Secretary General of La Francophonie, the international organization of 88 member states and governments sharing French. She took office on January 3, 2019, after being elected at the Yerevan Summit in October 2018. After living in the United States for twenty years, she moved to Tunisia in 2006 where she worked in the African Development Bank in the direction of communication. In March 2008, she was called by the President of the Republic of Rwanda to join the government team where she successively served as Minister of Information from 2008 to 2009 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. from 2009 to 2018.
Louise Mushikiwabo graduated in Languages and Interpretation from the University of Delaware in the United States. Marked by the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in 1994, she co-wrote in 2006 the book “Rwanda Means the Universe”, published by Saint Martin’s Press, an intergenerational and autobiographical socio-historical memoir. She is also the recipient of the 2004 American University & School of International Studies Outstanding Humanitarian Award ”.
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