Freddy Mutanguha is the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial and the Africa representative for the Aegis Trust. As a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Freddy is now at the forefront of taking the successful model for peace education developed in Rwanda to other countries, working in partnership with community, national, and regional authorities in Kenya, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic. In addition, he has developed an Aegis Trust's peace education programme in the Rwanda, of which the core elements are now incorporated in Rwandan school curricula. Additionally, Freddy helped found the Association des Etudiants et Eleves Rescapes du Genocide (AERG), Rwanda's student survivors' association and went on to become the vice president of IBUKA, a national association for Rwandan genocide survivors. He is an international board member of the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation in Cambodia as well as an external advisory committee member of the University of South California's Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles. Freddy regularly lectures on the impact of the Rwandan Genocide and on post-conflict reconstruction around the world. In 2016, the Justice and Security Foundation declared him an award winner for his outstanding contribution to peace and has been profiled at the Atlanta Human Rights Museum as a prominent human rights activist. He has a Bachelor's Degree in education from the Kigali Institute of Education as well as a Master's Degree in project management from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands. Freddy is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.