Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF RWANDA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Stanislas Kamanzi, the new Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Kamanzi was appointed Ambassador to France in 1999.  Before that, for two years, he participated in the consultations held at the Office of the President of Rwanda, aimed at addressing the country’s political problems.  He is a member of the Political Bureau of Rwanda’s Social Democratic Party. 

In academia, he has been a lecturer at the National University of Rwanda, Department of Geography, from 1998 until the present, and was an assistant lecturer from 1994 to 1998.

From June 1992 to April 1994, Mr. Kamanzi was sub-Prefect of the Kinihara Sous-Prefecture (Byumba Demilitarized Zone).  As a staff member at the development organization Inades Formation Rwanda, he was in charge of documentation, research and evaluation (1992-1993), and prior to that he was a civil servant in territorial administration (ex Commune Gituza’s Assistant Mayor in charge of Economic and Technical Affairs) (1988-1992). 

Mr. Kamanzi received his master’s degree in environment and development from the University of Natal-South Africa, with specialty courses in geographic information systems (GIS) and water resource management.  He received his “Licence” in geography, with a dissertation on river bank erosion issues from the National University of Rwanda in 1987, where he also received his bachelor’s degree in 1985.

He speaks Kinarwanda, French, English and Swahili.  Born on 30 September 1962 in Byumba (Gituza), he is married with two children.

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