| Name | Donald Kaberuka |  |
| Surname | Kaberuka | |
| First Names | Donald | |
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| Title | Mr | |
| Country of Birth | Rwanda |
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| From | To | Organisation | Position |
| 2005 | African Development Bank Group - ADB | President ADB | |
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| wahooas@fasonet.bf | |
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| Notes | Biography of Mr. Donald Kaberuka ------------------------------------------------- Mr. Donald Kaberuka is the 7th elected President of the African Development Bank Group. He took the oath of office on September 1, 2005 in a ceremony at the institution’s Temporary Relocation Agency in Tunis. The occasion was witnessed by the Chair and members of the Bank’s Board of Governors, the Board of Directors, members of the diplomatic corps in Tunis and staff of the institution. “I solemnly declare and undertake…that I will abide by the provisions of the Agreement establishing the African Development Bank… and that I will discharge my duties and functions… with loyalty, discretion and conscience.” With those words, Mr. Kaberuka became the seventh elected President of the Bank for the next five years. As President of the Bank Group, Mr. Kaberuka is chairing the Boards of the African Development Bank and the African Development Fund, the soft loan arm of the Group. Biodata Mr. Kaberuka was educated in Tanzania and the United Kingdom where he obtained his M Phil (Econ) and a PhD in Economics from Glasgow University in Scotland. He is fluent in English, French and Swahili. He served as Rwanda’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning since 1997, and has been widely acknowledged as the principal architect of the successful post-war reconstruction and economic reform programme. He initiated and implemented major economic and governance reforms in the fiscal, monetary, budgetary and structural domains including independence of the Central Banks. These reforms resulted in the widely acclaimed recovery of the Rwandan economy, sustained economic growth and enabled the country to benefit from debt cancellations under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in April 2005. Mr. Kaberuka had 12 years experience in the Banking industry, trade finance, international commodity business and Development issues, before he joined the government. As minister for Finance and Economic Planning, the new President was Governor for Rwanda at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank. [ Retrieved on 10 October 2007 - http://www.afdb.org/portal/page?_pageid=473,968715&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL ] |
| Record last updated on 15 MAY 2008 |