Doreen Karake

Doreen Karake has served as Legal Analyst with the Rwanda Development Board for two years. Her responsibilities include negotiating strategic investment deals on behalf of the government, undertaking investment appraisals, and making recommendations on which investments would most benefit the country. Prior to this position, Doreen worked for one of Rwanda’s top corporate law firms and practiced company law, mergers and acquisitions, labor law, and general corporate commercial law. Doreen Karake has a B-Juris from the University of Namibia, a postgraduate LLB and a master’s in law from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is currently pursuing a long distance master of business administration from the Heriot Watt University in the United Kingdom. After completion of Washington Fellowship program, Doreen intends to work on sharing the knowledge acquired with her colleagues in the Rwanda Development Board, as well as across all government bodies, to help Rwanda become a knowledge-based economy.