Prof. Romain Murenzi
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Executive Director of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) |
| Location | Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy |
| Introduction | Romain Murenzi serves as the Executive Director of TWAS and oversees the administration of Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, and the InterAcademy Partnership. Murenzi initially joined TWAS in April 2011 for five years. He then spent 14 months at UNESCO, Paris, directing the Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building. On 1 September 2017 he was transferred back to TWAS. Previously he served as Rwanda's Minister of Education, Science and Technology and Scientific Research and as Minister in the President's Office in Charge of Science and Technology, and Scientific Research, with responsibilities including Information and Communication Technologies. In 2009 he was a senior scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Center for Science, Technology and Sustainable Development; he served as Director from 2010–2011. Murenzi holds a Bachelor of Science from the National University of Burundi, a Master of Science and a PhD from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium; a Master of Law degree in Information Technology and Telecommunication and an honorary doctoral degree conferred upon him by the University of Johannesburg. |
| Interests | -Information Communication Technologies (ICT) -Science and Technology for Economic Growth -Education -Computational Mathematics/Physics -Multidimensional Data Analysis |