H.E. Mr. Francois Kanimba
Mr. Fran?ois Kanimba is the Commisner of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) since August 2020.
Before his post as Commissioner, Mr. Kanimba was Rwanda¡¯s Minister of Trade and Industry after a long career in the Central Bank of Rwanda, where he also served as the Bank¡¯s Governor since 2002. Between 1984 and 1995, Mr. Kanimba also worked in the Ministry of Economic Planning, where he developed a wide expertise in macroeconomic management. He was the Chairman of the Governance Task Force, which negotiated Rwanda¡¯s first structural adjustment programme supported by the World Bank, the IMF and other development partners.
Originally trained as an engineer, Mr. Kanimba has a degree in statistics and economics from the Paris-based European Centre for Training Economists Statisticians for Developing Countries.