Yamina Claris Karitsnyi is the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from Rwanda and non-resident Ambassador to Ireland.[1] She presented her credentials January 9, 2016.
Before being posted in London, Karitanyi was in charge of the Tourism and Conservation portfolios at the Rwanda Development Board (RDB). She became High Commissioner to Kenya in 2012.
From Buffalo State College in New York, in 1998 Karitanyi earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Studies. Her MBA is from the Rochester Institute of Technology.[2]