Ambassador Bakuramutsa brings to her new role substantial experience from senior positions in government, diplomacy, and other sectors. Her career has included serving as Rwanda’s Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

In the coming weeks, Bakuramutsa will also present her credentials to the President of the Swiss Confederation. Her diplomatic accreditation extends to Austria, the Vatican, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, and the United Nations Office at Vienn, where similar formalities will be completed.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Bakuramutsa had been serving as Ambassador of Rwanda to Jordan since December 2023. She served as Director of the Cabinet of the Office of the President of Rwanda from March 2020 to December 2023. She also held the post of Permanent Secretary at the Rwandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from October 2018 to March 2020.

Ms. Bakuramutsa served as Minister Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations in New York from October 2016 to October 2018. She was Director General of the Imbuto Foundation in Kigali from May 2014 to October 2016. She started her career working in the private sector, first in California, United States from November 2006 to December 2011, and then in Kigali, Rwanda from January 2012 to May 2014.

Ms. Bakuramutsa holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Sacramento State University in the United States. She was born in 1979 in Burkina Faso and is married with three children.