Monique Nsanzabaganwa
Monique Nsanzabaganwa (born 1971) is a Rwandan economist, politician and diplomat who served as Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 6 February 2021 to 2025. She was the first woman to hold the post, and was elected by the 34th African Union Assembly. Before that, she was Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda from 2011 to 2021, Minister of Trade and Industry from 2008 to 2011, and Minister of State in charge of Economic Planning from 2003 to 2008.
Quotes
[edit]- When human hearts and minds connect, a lot stands to happen. Never feel that investing time and money in networking is a wasteful act.
- our role is to ensure the stability of the currency and general level of prices for goods and services; in other words, our role is to ensure moderate inflation that does not undermine the purchasing power of the citizens and discourage them from saving and investing.
- A second learning I’ve had has been the power of networking. There is a lot of good will out there; people with ideas, experience, connections, and solutions. These are the same people ready to listen and be inspired by one’s ideas and actions as well.
- Gender is not just numbers — how many women, how many men –, but other things like the diversity of ideas and styles you bring on board, the minds of people and perceptions.
- Rwanda’s gender trailblazers inspire future female leaders. AFI. (July 2019)
- We need to tackle this issue of women running the risk of falling back behind if we push technology without consciousness about what else needs to be done for them to really embrace and grow with it.
- Rwanda’s gender trailblazers inspire future female leaders. AFI. (July 2019)
- T- Trust is perhaps the most precious asset there is in our lives. Bankers know it
very well, for instance, that a default of trust in a currency can crash an economy. Trust is earned, and self-reinforcing. Trust is maintained through a track record of doing the right things and doing them right. It does not matter if it is big or small things. What matters is the attitude to bring about change, the urge to transform
- I propose to personally represent the moral authority and
integrity the organization stands for - you can’t ask a member state or a partner to become something that we, ourselves, are not.
- “A product does not simply circulate because a treaty has been signed. It circulates because there is a truck, a road, a scanner, a cross-border payment system, and common standards,”
- "I will strive to secure an all-hands commitment to eradicate
mediocrity and apathy: demonstrate a no excuses approach to become operationally effective and efficient in the performance of its mandate."
- "The adverse spillover effects of today's geostrategic mutations, conflicts, or natural crises, have spared no one... This complexity demands of leaders to forge win-win partnerships where there is alignment of interest and vision."
- "We believe that creativity, participation in dialogue, are some of the critical values that can help us overcome the challenges we in Africa face today. And by embracing these values, we can work together to build a better future for our continent."
- If I have this opportunity, let’s use it not for my own privilege, my own benefit, to get a nice salary, drive a nice car, and that’s it. So, I have really to see what else I can do to uplift them.
- Breaking Barriers: Women Changemakers in Financial Inclusion, Ep. 3 featuring Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa Women's World Banking (September 21, 2026)
- You have to first of all be equipped, get educated, know as much as you can, and really perform well.
- Breaking Barriers: Women Changemakers in Financial Inclusion, Ep. 3 featuring Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa Women's World Banking (September 21, 2026)
- In whatever position you stand use that to create something.
- Breaking Barriers: Women Changemakers in Financial Inclusion, Ep. 3 featuring Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa Women's World Banking (September 21, 2026)
- You have to admit that there is a challenge. You have to know how big the challenge is, what is your measuring data. You have to plan to have a strategy.
- Breaking Barriers: Women Changemakers in Financial Inclusion, Ep. 3 featuring Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa Women's World Banking (September 21, 2026)
- There is a lot you can do by coming together and learning from each other and inspiring each other and actually holding each other accountable.
- Breaking Barriers: Women Changemakers in Financial Inclusion, Ep. 3 featuring Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa Women's World Banking (September 21, 2026)
- Today’s system really puts first inclusion. And inclusion starts by including everyone, men and women.
- Breaking Barriers: Women Changemakers in Financial Inclusion, Ep. 3 featuring Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa Women's World Banking (September 21, 2026)
- With the availability of financial inclusion policies in Rwanda, there we need to capacitate women, with business competencies and required skills for comprehensive empowerment.
- Global Women's Summit opens in Kigali the new times( September 21, 2026)
- Needing equality means attaining it.
- Rwanda’s March Towards Gender Parity By 2030 Unity Club (September 21, 2026)
- Africa is stronger together.
- Monique-Nsanzabaganwa. new times (September 24, 2026).
- Africa’s time is here and capital has noticed.
- 60 Years of History, 60 Years of Hustle – BK Group Looks Beyond Banking. ktpress.rw (September 24, 2026).
- Investors do not require a risk-free environment. They require a risk-understandable environment.
- 60 Years of History, 60 Years of Hustle – BK Group Looks Beyond Banking. ktpress.rw (September 24, 2026).
- Capital follows confidence, confidence is built by institutions, institutions are made by choices.
- 60 Years of History, 60 Years of Hustle – BK Group Looks Beyond Banking. ktpress.rw (September 24, 2026).
- The choice in this room today is whether Africa’s capital will be deployed by Africans into Africa for Africans at the scale our future demands. I believe it can be, I believe it must be, and I believe Rwanda is one of the markets where it will be.
- 60 Years of History, 60 Years of Hustle – BK Group Looks Beyond Banking. ktpress.rw (September 24, 2026).
- We are here to ask what Rwanda and Africa are now ready to finance.
- 60 Years of History, 60 Years of Hustle – BK Group Looks Beyond Banking. ktpress.rw (September 24, 2026).
