Else Nizigama Ntamagiro | |
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| Born | November 15, 1972 |
| Nationality | Burundian |
Else Nizigama Ntamagiro became Burundi's Ambassador to Germany and the Vatican in 2016.
Else Nizigama Ntamagiro | |
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| Born | November 15, 1972 |
| Nationality | Burundian |
Else Nizigama Ntamagiro became Burundi's Ambassador to Germany and the Vatican in 2016.
Ntamagiro was born in 1972. [1]
Ntamagiro gained her first degree in Administrative and Political Sciences, Université officielle de Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For her master's degree she went to Belgium. Her master's degree in Political Sciences and International Relations (DEA SPRI) was from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) [2]
She began her diplomatic career in 2002 as an adviser to the Ministry of External Relations and also the International Cooperation Department of International Organizations. In 2009 she was appointed as First Counsellor at her country's embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [1]
Ntamagiro has had several other ambassadorial level posts including Ambassador to the Russian Federation and to Georgia (2014-2016) and Chargé d'Affaires at the Embassy of Burundi in Canada from 2011 until 2013. [2]
She was appointed as her country's Ambassador to Germany on the 6 July 2016 with a co-accreditation to the Vatican [3] (since December 15, 2016), Austria (since January 8, 2018), [4] Slovakia (since January 17, 2018) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization since June 23, 2017. [2]
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