Claver Gatete

Ambassador Claver Gatete
Minister of Finance and Economic Planning
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 February 2013
President	Paul Kagame
Preceded by	John Rwangombwa
Personal details
Born	(1962-05-23) 23 May 1962 Mbarara, Uganda
Alma mater	University of British Columbia (BSc), (MSc)

Claver Gatete (born 23 May 1962) is a Rwandan politician and former ambassador, who currently serves as the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in the Rwandan government. He has previously served as the Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda and as Rwanda’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Iceland.

Background

Claver Gatete was born in Mbarara, Uganda on 23 May 1962, where he was raised and educated. In 1991, he graduated from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver with an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics; he pursued the same course at the same university at Master’s level and graduated in 1993.

Career

Upon the completion of his university studies, Gatete worked in Canada as an economist between 1991 and 1997, and then worked as the national economist with the United Nations Development Programme in Rwanda until 2000.

In October 2001, Gatete joined the office of the president as the president’s personal representative to NEPAD, before being appointed the Secretary General and Secretary to the Treasury in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in November 2003, a position he held until September 2005.

From November 2005 until December 2009, Gatete was Rwanda’s ambassador to the UK, Ireland and Iceland, before joining the National Bank of Rwanda as the deputy governor. He then served as the Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda from May 2011, before his appointment as the Minister of Finance.

Film appearance

• Motherland film (2010)