Mushikiwabo Louise

Secretary General of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

(Kigali, RWANDA - 1961)

Since 2019, she has been Secretary General of the Francophonie, an international organisation that brings together 88 member states and governments that share French as a common language. After living in the United States for about 20 years, she moved to Tunisia in 2006, where she worked at the African Development Bank as Director of Communication. In 2008, she returned to Rwanda where she was Minister of Information from 2008 to 2009 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from 2009 to 2018.
Scarred by the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in 1994, she co-wrote the book 'Rwanda Means the Universe', a socio-historical autobiographical memoir, in 2006.