Full Name
Dr Carmen Nibigira
Job Title
Lead, Tourism and Hospitality
Organisation
Mastercard Foundation
Speaker Bio
A seasoned tourism policy analyst with over 20 years’ experience in the hotel and tourism industry in Africa and Europe. Carmen is a dynamic business leader with an international track record of delivering significant results in a variety of difficult, volatile markets. With extensive experience and deep domain expertise in the tourism business (destination management and tourism policy); cross-regional consultancy and most recently tertiary education.Carmen has worked in different capacity as advisor to tourism boards, international and private organizations in East, Central and Western part of Africa. Carmen was awarded the “African Women in Tourism Leadership Award” in 2018 and voted as one of the top 100 influential women in Travel in 2017. She is widely known for her courageous advocacy of quality education and socio-economic empowerment for women. She is the Chair of the Rwanda Board of Directors of Davis College, an East African higher education
institution. She also serves on the advisory board of Inkomoko, a business incubator in East Africa, an outlet for her interest in entrepreneurship. Her most recent areas of interest have been how to migrate businesses and institutions up the value- chain, by instilling a commitment throughout the culture of the enterprise to optimising customer experience.
institution. She also serves on the advisory board of Inkomoko, a business incubator in East Africa, an outlet for her interest in entrepreneurship. Her most recent areas of interest have been how to migrate businesses and institutions up the value- chain, by instilling a commitment throughout the culture of the enterprise to optimising customer experience.