Roselyne Uwamahoro

Roselyne has been working in the financial sector for more than fifteen years, focusing on Inclusive Finance and Digital inclusion to “leave no one behind”. She specialized in projects management where she implemented various complex projects contributing to the improvement of the livelihood and financial health of marginalized people: women, youth, refugees, and people with disabilities through access to and usage of appropriate and customized financial and non-financial services and products.

Currently, working as the Program Specialist, IDE Country lead at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), implementing the program of Inclusive Digital Economy contributing to SDG 1,5,8 and 17. Previously she worked as the Head of Microfinance at Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR), a not-for-profit multi-donor funded company (DFID, MasterCard Foundation, USAID) with a mandate to stimulate the Microfinance Sector Development.

She also worked for the second largest Commercial Bank in Rwanda, I&M Bank Plc. She was also a board member of a Network of six countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Ethiopia) supporting access to finance to saving groups.

Roselyne holds an MBA in Project Management from Maastricht School of Management (MsM); she is a certified trainer by the House of Training Luxembourg that funded the 1st Rwandan Academy of Finance (RAF) and an Alumni from Harvard Kennedy School on rethinking financial inclusion.

She is fluent in Kinyarwanda, French and English.