Col Callixte Kalisa

Col Callixte KALISA

Col Callixte KALISA is a serving RDF Senior Officer currently a Director General in the Ministry of Defense of Rwanda (MOD) in charge of coordinating all Ministries’ Agencies including ZIGAMA CSS. He was appointed to this position in July 2016, after having been a Director of Finance in the same Ministry for 8 Years (July 2009-2016).

He holds two masters degrees as follows: (1) MBA (in Banking), Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, 2007. (2) MRes (Masters in Research: Business Research), 28^th June 2018, Durham University, UK.

He worked with ZIGAMA CSS during the period between 2001 and 2009 and headed following senior positions as head of (1) Credit, (2) bank Operations and (3) Audit departments.

As experienced banker, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of ZIGAMA CSS in November 2011 where he served as Non-Executive Director and cumulated the functions of (1) Head of Management, Asset and Liability Committee, Head of Credit Sub-Committee, Member of Executive Committee and Vice Chair of ZIGAMA CSS BOD(May 2016 up to now).

He is also now serving as Vice Chairperson of the BOD of MOD Complementary Pension Scheme (12 January 2017) and BOD Member of Armed Forces Shop (since 19 January 2018 up to now).