Dr Hermogene Nsengimana

Secretary General of the African Organisation for Standardisation, ARSO

Dr. Hermogene Nsengimana, since 2012 to date, is the Secretary General of the African Organisation for Standardisation, ARSO, an intergovernmental Organisation which was formed by the African Union (AU, formerly OAU) and Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and with a membership of 38 African countries. Recruited by the ARSO Council, the Administrative arm of the Organisation, Dr Hermogene Nsengimana began his Career with ARSO in 2012. Steering ARSO to fulfil its Mandate of harmonising Standards and Conformity Assessment to reduce Technical Barriers to Trade and promote Intra-African and global Trade, Dr Nsengimana has demonstrated unrivalled and higher success at all key programmes of the Organisation, given his thorough understanding of the challenges of Technical Barriers to Trade issues in Africa and in World Trading systems, based on his wide knowledge of the World Trade Organisation TBTs Agreement (WTO TBT Agreement),. His demonstrated primary strength in the delivery of ARSO mandate is his visionary leadership with a deeper understanding of the letter and intent of the African Integration, Industrialisation and Transformation Agenda; the main African key blueprints of Lagos Plan of Action, Abuja Treaty and the African Agenda 2063, the African we Want.