Jean Marie Vianney Gakwerere

I am GAKWERERE Jean Marie Vianney, 47 years old, Rwandan and married. Holder of a Master’s degree in Business Administration. For 17 years, since 2000, I worked in tax administration, where my attributions were: development and implementation of tax policies, budgeting and monitoring of revenues and expenditures, coaching, mentoring and evaluating staff, trainings of staff and stakeholders on a regular basis. I successfully played a big role in tax administration reforms at coordination and implementation level in: Introduction of Value Added Tax in Rwanda as implementer, and as project Coordinator in Digitalization of decentralized taxes and fees. This project was successful till now. I represented Rwanda in discussion Panels on tax issues at ATAF/ATRN in different Countries: Tanzania; Swaziland; University of Pretoria and in Cape Town; South Africa; and Seychelles. I gained skills in negotiating and overcoming challenges with different partners GIZ, DFID, World Bank, PSF, Ministries and others.