Lucy Nshuti Mbabazi

Managing Director

Nshuti is the Managing Director at the United Nations hosted Better Than Cash Alliance. Since 2020, she has been leading the Alliance’s Africa Policy, Advocacy & Partnerships efforts, working with regional and continental organizations to accelerate the adoption and usage of digital payments as a catalyst for digital financial inclusion for every African, notably the successful integration of responsible digital payments and digital public infrastructure into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Protocol on Digital Trade.

Before joining the United Nations, Nshuti served as Ecobank Group Manager, Push Payments & Merchant Acquiring, leading the development and deployment of merchant payment solutions for 33 countries across Africa: Country Manager Rwanda, Burundi, and Malawi for Visa Inc. and Strategy and Policy Advisor to Rwanda Development Board IT Department.

Nshuti is President Emeritus of Girls in ICT Rwanda, which is inspiring more Rwandan and African girls to choose careers in STEM; Board Chair Emeritus Leo Africa Institute, which is nurturing Young & Emerging Leaders across Africa; Former Non-Executive Director of BBOXX Rwanda Board, which is powering Rwandan homes with solar electricity; Former Chair Rwanda Internet Community Association (RICTA), which represents the interests of Rwandans on the internet, and former Advisory Board Member to Girl Effect, which worked to equip Rwanda’s adolescent girls to reach their full potential.

Nshuti holds a Master of Science in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology & Management from Laroche University.