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Andrew Rugege is the regional director for Africa at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN specialized agency for telecom and ICT. He is also the representative of the ICT to the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) in Ethiopia. He is responsible for collaboration with and assistance to the ITU member states in Africa and the development of telecommunications/ICTs in the continent. Previously, Andrew served as chief operating officer of MTN Rwandacell. Prior to MTN, Andrew held other leadership positions including CEO of Artel Communications, a VSAT-based rural telecommunications services provider in Rwanda, director of international business development at ABSinteractive in Washington DC and global IT services coordinator for the United Bible Societies, Reading, England. Andrew believes that through public and private partnerships, MTN can lead other service providers in Africa and Middle East to reach areas not yet explored with affordable and sustainable telecommunications and other ICT solutions. Andrew is also the current chairman of the board of directors of the National Office of Public Transport. He is the immediate past chairman of both the Board of Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority and the Rwanda ICT Association. Andrew's formal training is in electrical engineering, computer science, and business administration, for which he holds masters degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen in Scotland and Marist College in New York respectively. He is a Fellow of the third class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-East Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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