Solange uwituze

Solange Uwituze (born 1974) is a Rwandan politician who has served as a board member of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) since 2020. She has also been the deputy director-general in charge of animal resources research and technology transfer at the Rwanda Agriculture Board since 2018, along with being a founding fellow of the Rwanda Academy of Sciences.

Career Born in Rwanda, Uwituze was raised in a household that primarily spoke French and she desired from a young age to learn English and learn in the United States, particularly due to the meritocratic advancement available to women in the US. During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, multiple members of her family were killed, including her father and two of her brothers, which made her determined to do something with her life and have a purpose beyond the violence that occurred. She went on to obtain a Bachelor's degree from the National University of Rwanda, in 2002 and stayed at the university as an academic secretary in the agricultural research department.

Uwituze was also made a member of the international group Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) in 2012 in order to help improve the curriculum of the agricultural programs at the university within three years. At the same time, she acted with the Women Leadership Program in Agriculture as supported by USAID in order to expand the number of Rwandan women active in agribusiness, with Uwituze being the project director of the program.