Teddy Mugabo, CEO of Rwanda’s Green Fund
Teddy Mugabo is a 2022 Eisenhower Fellow and the CEO of Rwanda’s Green Fund, which is actively developing a Green Investment facility. “The work I’m involved in at the fund has a strong focus on addressing poverty, building resilience of rural communities against climate change and mitigating/reducing carbon emissions through several clean energy projects that we implement.” Using a “green bank” model, the facility aims to address local market gaps and crowd in private finance, strengthen Rwanda’s ownership of climate finance and improve access to international finance (non-grant) resources, and build their green finance capacity of local banks through innovation, risk transfer and deal arrangement.
Teddy looks forward to learning more in the FDCE program about clean energy technologies, supportive policy frameworks, and project financing & innovative financing mechanisms to support Rwanda’s ambitious transition to a greener economy.