Odile Mukiza

Odile Mukiza was an intern supporting the Markets and Development Initiative at the Economic Growth Center and a second-year MPP candidate at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. She focused on economic policy and development, with special interests in agriculture, social innovation, and public-private partnerships. Odile most recently worked as a consultant at The Rockefeller Foundation—Africa Office, where she shaped food systems policy changes to address pressing public health threats, including non-communicable diseases in Ghana and Kenya, and child malnutrition in Rwanda.

Prior to joining Yale, Odile was an economic policy analyst at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) of Rwanda. Her primary responsibilities included advising the Prime Minister and other high government officials on policies, strategies, and projects related to private sector promotion. She worked on a wide range of policy and strategy drafting exercises and project implementations, including developing the institutional and legal frameworks needed to establish Kigali as an International Financial Center. While at the OPM, she also facilitated coordination efforts for implementing a public-private partnership to develop the Gabiro Agribusiness Hub project. This project aimed to create an advanced modern value chain with a holistic and commercial agricultural ecosystem, featuring cutting-edge irrigation systems and high-value agro-processing operations over 15,600 hectares of arable land in Rwanda.

Odile holds a BA in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, with an international focus and a minor in finance from Texas Christian University. She is fluent in French and Kinyarwanda.