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Amb. Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye
Principal, Emerging Markets & Business Development, Raffles Family Office. Former Minister of state for Infrastructure & High Commissioner of Rwanda to Singapore, Australia, New Zealand
Amb. Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye is Principal for Emerging Markets and Business Development at Raffles Family Office (RFO), a leading multi-family office in Asia. He leads the firm’s Asia–Africa corridor, connecting capital and wealth between the two regions, and will extend this work across the wider emerging markets.
He has more than 15 years of experience across government, diplomacy and business. Most recently he served in Rwanda’s cabinet as Minister of State for Infrastructure from July 2025 to June 2026. He had first held the portfolio as Minister of State for Transport from 2017 to 2019, when he oversaw Rwanda’s land, air and water transport policies. He was appointed at 30, the youngest member of the cabinet at the time.
From 2019 to 2025 he was Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. From 2023 he was also Ambassador to Indonesia, and he was accredited to Brunei Darussalam. As Dean of the African Group of Ambassadors in Singapore, he represented 54 African countries in their dealings with the Asia-Pacific business community. He was also part of the team that partnered with the Global Finance & Technology Network and the Kigali International Financial Centre to launch the Inclusive FinTech Forum, Africa’s largest annual financial technology gathering.
An engineer by profession, he began his career in construction at NPD Ltd, one of Rwanda’s leading construction firms. He served there as Director of Construction and Engineering Services and later as Director of Business Planning and Development. From 2014 to 2017 he also taught project management on the master’s programme at the University of Lay Adventists of Kigali. He is a Certified Project Manager of the Association for Project Management.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with First Class Honours from the National University of Rwanda. He also holds a Master of Science in Construction Project Management from the University of Manchester and a Master of Business Administration from Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has completed executive education at Tsinghua University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Speaking At
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3:30–4:10pmTue 17 NovSummit StageMain Stage, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 5Invite-Only
Others
How Should Ultra-High-Net-Worth Families Hold and Structure Their Wealth?
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Amb. Jean de Dieu UwihanganyePrincipal, Emerging Markets & Business Development, Raffles Family Office. Former Minister of state for Infrastructure & High Commissioner of Rwanda to Singapore, Australia, New Zealand
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Shilpi ChowdharyGroup Chief Executive OfficerLighthouse Canton and Keenai Global
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Usha ChandradasConsultantWithers KhattarWong LLP
About this session
As substantial wealth passes from one generation to another, the priorities of families and their expectations of the institutions serving them are changing.
While first-generation wealth creators have often prioritised control and preservation, their successors may place greater value on time, convenience, technology and different forms of financial advice.
How will the next generation approach investment decisions, risk and governance?
How can families prepare successors to assume responsibility for wealth, and what must private banks, family offices and advisers do to remain relevant as relationships and decision-making authority change hands?
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