IER Governing Council

Gentil KANGAHO is a Civil Engineer, with more than 13 years of working experience in the construction sector both in roads and buildings, of which the last 4 years has been committed to high level management as the General Manager Real Contractors ltd one of the biggest construction companies in Rwanda that has been involved in Real Estate Development, construction of commercial building such as banks and office blocks, hotels, hostels, factories and ware houses. I was able to turn around this company within a period of 2 years from an annual turnover of $13.2 million to $22.2 million.

Eng. Gentil was the General Manager of East African Granite Industries Ltd, the biggest Granite manufacturing plant in East and Central Africa. This was a start-up.

He was Senior Engineer at the Rwanda Development Bank overseeing big construction projects such as hotels, hospitals, schools, hostels as well as factories.

He is a Certified property valuer and member of the Institute of Real Property Valuers Rwanda and an Arbitrator with and advanced certificate from Ciarb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators) London and an Adjudicator with certificate in adjudication from KLRCA, Kuala lumpur Malaysia.

He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Bharathya University India

Eng. Kassana has nearly 3 decades of experience within water resources and energy fields. He is a licenced and professional registered Engineer practising within water resources/energy sectors in East and Central Africa since 1991. He is a Fellow class member of the Institution of Engineers Rwanda. He has nearly 30 years’ extensive experience in Hydropower Sector in East and Central Africa Region (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and Malawi).

During the period, he has been serving Governments, Utilities, UN organizations, Multilateral Development Banks (World Bank, KfW, NORAD, AFD and Trade & Development Bank) as well as numerous independent power producers (IPPs) in the region. He served as a member of Panel of Experts (PoE) for multiple World Bank Funded Dam projects in Rwanda since 2011 to 2018.

He holds MSc (Hydropower), MBA (Energy Utility Mgt), BSc (Geology), Diploma in Eng. Geology, Diploma in River Basin Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma (Hydropower Management & Use) and other numerous professional certificates.

He has been serving as a Technical Committee member on a number of conferences including for HydroVision series, WaterPower series, iPAD series, Hydropower Africa series and Africa Utility Week Conferences. He served as peer reviewer for DAM Engineering, an International Quarterly Journal published by Willington Publishing, London, UK. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Hydro Review World (HRW), a magazine published by HCI Publications Inc., Montana, USA and He was recognized as a Power Elite/Personality of the year 2018 by ESI Africa 2018.

He has authored numerous articles in international publications/journals/media as well as featuring a number of professional talks in various international conferences around the globe. For details, visit www.gehydroplanea.com

Eng. Uwanjye Munyaneza Yvette obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology from Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in 2005 and is candidate on Masters of Environmental Resources Management.

Eng. Uwanjye has about 11 yrs of working experience in the field of road construction and maintenance in the Governmental Agency of Transport and Development. She is experienced in Disaster Management and quick intervention. Currently, Eng. Uwanjye is working as the District & Feeder Roads Design & Development Senior Engineer.

Among others, She is nominated as WIE Committee Deputy Vice- Chair/ Engineering Workforce Diversity, a Standing Technical Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)