Felicité Rwemarika

Felicité Rwemarika is a member of the International Olympic Committee and the first vice president of Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee. She is the second of thirteen children and trained as a midwife, before becoming an entrepreneur and establishing the first hair salon in Kigali after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. After several successful business ventures, Felicité began to dedicate her time to women's empowerment in Rwanda and set up the Association of Kigali Women in Sports in 2002. She was also a board member of the international women's organization "Women Win", President for the Women's Football Commission in the Rwandan Football Federation and is the Chair of the NGO's 'We Act for Hope' and the Rwanda forum on HIV & AIDS and Health Promotion.