significant improvements have been noted in PFM, and these reforms provided the means of ensuring that the resources allocated to the various program… - Claudine Uwera

About Claudine Uwera

Claudine Uwera is a Rwandan Politician and Economist who currently serves as Minister of State in Charge of Economic Planning in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwandan since 2018. Prior of appointment, she was the Coordinator of the Natural Capital Accounting Program (NCA). Claudine received her early education in Burundi & Rwanda. She did her undergraduate studies at the National University of Rwanda & obtained a Bachelor degree of Economics in 2001. She then travelled to Belgium and followed a Master’s programme of “Gestion du Développement”, in the Faculty of Economics, Social & Management at the University of Liège (2005 to 2007). From 2008 to 2013, she pursued her PhD studies in the Department of Economics of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where she obtained her PhD degree in Environmental Economics. Claudine Uwera has taught at the University of Rwanda in the School of Economics for more than 10 years, over 2003-2018. She also served as Dean of the School of Economics through 2014-2015.