Jean Bosco Iyacu is the Chief Executive Officer of Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR), a Not
for-Profit company focused on promoting financial sector development and facilitating 
access to and use of financial services for unserved and underserved segments in Rwanda. 
He has over 17 years’ experience working in the Rwandan financial sector and has been 
instrumental in the design and implementation of a wide range of financial inclusion and 
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inancial sector development programs across Rwanda and Sub-Saharan Africa.  Iyacu is 
the current Chair of the Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Network Council, a Global Fin
Equity Technical Advisory Committee Member, and a Board Member at Salvo Grima Africa 
Distribution Ltd. 
He prior served as the CEO of the Rwanda Business Development Center (RBDC), an entre
preneurship and business incubation facility and in other leadership capacities in some of 
Africa’s leading financial institutions such as KCB Bank, where he was the Regional Business 
Manager and Head of Retail and SME Banking. 
He holds a Master’s in Economics from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He 
is a certified expert in MSME Financing and Inclusive Insurance from the Frankfurt School 
of Finance and Management as well as a certified expert in Digital Money from the Digital 
Frontiers Institute. Through the United Kingdom’s Chartered Institute of Securities and 
Investment, Jean Bosco has completed the Introduction to Securities and Investment in 
Africa course and another on Rethinking Financial Inclusion from Harvard Kennedy School