Awel Uwihanganye

Founder & Senior Director

"Through our fellowship programs, events and other activities, we foster quality networks among Africa's young and emerging leaders. We are working towards building a critical mass of ethical and values-based leaders."
Awel Uwihanganye

Awel Uwihanganye is an accomplished management & leadership specialist with expert skills in executive management, communications and public relations, resource mobilization, diplomacy, and leadership development.

As a founder of several change initiatives, he is keenly interested in entrepreneurship, in the power of ideas, to change lives, shape society, and advance development, and 'envisions Africa as a frontier for opportunity and growth with a confident, self-aware generation of rising African leaders at the center of this renaissance'.

He is a proud alumnus of Concordia University-Montreal Canada, a privileged fellow of the African Leadership Initiative—East Africa, and a Member of the Aspen Institute's Global Leadership Network.

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