Mr Jean-Jacques NYIRUBUTAMA
Chief Transport Economist and Regional Coordinator
African Development Bank
South Africa
W : https://www.afdb.org/en/countries/southern-africa/south-africa
Personal Profile
Jean-Jacques NYIRUBUTAMA is the Coordinator of the Transport sector for the Southern Africa office and Chief Transport Economist, at the African Development Bank (AfDB). He joined AfDB in August 2011. He has over 25 years’ experience in development finance and transport.
From 2011-2022 Mr. Nyirubutama joined AfDB as Chief Program Officer in the Joint Secretariat Support Office between United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) – African Development Bank (AfDB) – African Union Commission (AUC) where he oversaw PIDA program coordination, but also supported the Boosting Intra African Trade process with the three continental organizations. From 2014 to 2022, he worked as Chief Transport Economist at AfDB leading business development processes and analytical, coordination work in the transport sector geared at enhancing regional integration in Africa.
Mr. Nyirubutama previously worked at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda in various capacities for several years and there he became an emerging markets specialist investor with experience developing business and investing across financial institutions including banks & NBFIs, Infrastructure with focus on transport. He has experience supporting senior executives and key government/regulatory engagement and private sector partnership development, and often served as trusted advisor to debt management for different government through Debt Relief International (DRI).
Before Government, Mr. Nyirubutama worked in the academic field, as a Lecturer at the Institute of Public Finance of Kigali in Rwanda, specializing in Public Finance.
Mr. Nyirubutama is a graduate of the school of Medicine of the University of Burundi in Bujumbura. He also holds an MSc in International Economics of Parma University in Italy and an associate degree in Transport Economics at the Laboratory of Transport Economics, in Lyon University, France.
Company Profile
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB or ADB) or Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since September 2014. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies investing in the regional member countries (RMC).
The AfDB was founded in 1964 by the Organisation of African Unity, which is the predecessor of the African Union.
The AfDB comprises three entities: The African Development Bank, the African Development Fund and the Nigeria Trust Fund.
The AfDB's mission is to fight poverty and improve living conditions on the continent through promoting the investment of public and private capital in projects and programs that are likely to contribute to the economic and social development of the region.
History:
Following the end of the colonial period in Africa, a growing desire for more unity within the continent led to the establishment of two draft charters, one for the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (established in 1963, later replaced by the African Union), and for a regional development bank.
A draft accord was submitted to top African officials then to the Conference of Finance Ministers on the Establishment of an African Development Bank. This conference was convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Khartoum, Sudan, from 31 July to 4 August. It was here that the agreement establishing the African Development Bank (AfDB) was cosigned by twenty-three African governments on 4 August 1963. The agreement came into force on 10 September 1964.
The inaugural meeting of the Board of Governors of the Bank was held from 4 to 7 November 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria. The Bank's headquarters opened in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in March 1965 and the Bank's operations commenced on 1 July 1966.
From February 2003 to September 2014, the Bank operated from its Temporary Relocation Agency in Tunis, Tunisia, owing to the prevailing political conflict in Ivory Coast during the Ivorian civil war at the time. The Bank was able to return to its original headquarters in Abidjan in late 2013 once the political crisis was over.
By June 2015, over 1,500 staff had returned to the Bank's Abidjan headquarters out of the more than 1,900 total staff the Bank.
Although, originally, only African countries were able to join the bank, since 1982 it has allowed the entry of non-African countries as well.
Since its founding, AfDB has financed 2,885 operations, for a total of $47.5 billion. In 2003, it received an AAA rating from the major financial rating agencies and had a capital of $32.043 billion. In November 2019, the bank's capital was reported as $208 billion.