Diane Karusisi
Diane Karusisi
Dr. Diane Karusisi is a Rwandan statistician, economist, bank executive and academic. She is the CEO of Bank of Kigali, the largest commercial bank in Rwanda by assets. Immediately prior to her present position, she served as the chief economist and head of strategy and policy at the Office of the President of Rwanda.
"We are often the first root causes of such exclusion because we don’t have self-confidence. We have inner feelings pushing us not to expose ourselves wondering what people shall think about you. They will consider me arrogant, …And this restrains you from raising hand to express an idea."
"We want to understand the issues our clients are facing. This will help us to plan better to extend our financial services to more Rwandans but through the use of technology as our main focus of better service delivery in the coming year.(Turashaka kumenya ibibazo abakiliya bacu bahura na byo. Ibi bizadufasha gutegura neza uburyo bwo kugeza serivisi zimari ku Banyarwanda benshi, dukoresheje ikoranabuhanga nkinkingi yingenzi mu gutanga serivisi zinoze mu mwaka utaha.)"
"When you have a face-to-face interview with them and they see that you are a normal woman, and that you do all these things, I think it really makes them believe that it is possible, because you dont need to have special knowledge, you just need to be committed, and to work with enthusiasm and be honest.(Iyo ugiranye ikiganiro cy’imbonankubone na bo bakabona ko uri umugore usanzwe, kandi ko ukora ibi bintu byose, ndatekereza ko rwose bibatera kwizera ko bigerwaho, birashoboka, kuko wowe ntukeneye kugira ubumenyi bwihariye, ugomba gusa kwiyemeza, no gukora umurimo ushishikaye kandi ukaba inyangamugayo)"
"It revealed terrible architecture and very limited capabilities to deal with digital, skills gap. So the journey had to involve a lot of heavy lifting, because we are working on infrastructure, architecture, new systems and construction of a new data center,” Karusisi said with a personal example of having an expired BK credit card but without knowing."
"Skills are important, but I think they are not the most important," Karusisi said, before adding that "we are not short of studies from very prestigious houses showing the importance and all the social, economic returns of investing into gender equality. All of that is there. Its out there on the internet and everyone can have access to that information.(Ubumenyi ni ingenzi, ariko sintekereza ko ari cyo kintu cy’ingenzi kurusha ibindi," Karusisi yavuze, yongeraho ati: "Nta kibazo dufite cy’uko nta bushakashatsi buhari; dufite ubushakashatsi bwinshi bwakozwe n’inzu zikomeye bugaragaza akamaro ko gushora mu buringanire bw’abagore n’abagabo, n’inyungu zabyo mu muryango ndetse no mu bukungu. Ibyo byose birahari, biri ku rubuga rw’iyakure kandi buri wese ashobora kubibona.)"
"Women see more role models in local government, in business, and I hope in the not so distant future we shall see more women in executive roles.(Abagore babona icyitegererezo muri za Leta zibanze no mu bucuruzi, kandi nizeye ko mu gihe kitari cya kure tuzabona abagore benshi mu myanya yo hejuru yubuyobozi.)"
