Dr. Pie Habimana, FCIArb

Dr. Pie Habimana is a distinguished corporate lawyer, senior academic, arbitrator, and corporate governance expert with over 16 years of experience at the intersection of law, policy, and business. Called to the Bar in 2011, he is the Founding Partner of Amilex Chambers. His core expertise spans international tax law, arbitration, corporate transactions, governance, and regulatory compliance. Dr. Pie has been consulted by high level institutions including the World Bank, UNECA, UNESCO, the Rwanda Governance Board, and the Higher Education Council of Rwanda, and regularly advises companies providing strategic legal counsel on complex business and policy matters. In several occasions, he appeared before the Supreme Court of Rwanda, either to challenge legislation or to submit high-level opinions as amicus curiae. He has also served as an expert witness in international arbitration and dispute adjudication proceedings

In the corporate sphere, Dr. Pie is the Executive Chairman of Pai Ltd, an investment holding company with diversified interests in both public and private enterprises. He serves as a Non-Executive Director at Bank of Kigali Plc, Rwanda's largest financial institution, where he chairs the Nominations and Remunerations Committee. He is also Chairman of Multisector Investment Group Plc, and a Non-Executive Director at MM&RJD Co. Ltd and 1000 Hills Ltd. His previous board appointments include Cogebanque Plc, the Rwanda Bar Association, the East Africa Law Society (Vice-President), and Printerset Ltd.

Dr. Pie Habimana is a Fellow and Faculty Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), and is on the panels of arbitrators and adjudicators of the Kigali International Arbitration Centre (KIAC) and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, and holds active membership in several professional bodies including the Rwanda Bar Association (RBA), East Africa Law Society (EALS), International Bar Association (IBA), African Arbitration Association (AfAA), SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre (SADRC), African Business Integrity Network (ABIN), US National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and the UK Institute of Directors (IoD).

In academia, Dr. Pie Habimana is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Rwanda, where he served as Deputy Dean from 2023 to 2025. He is a regular visiting senior trainer at the Institute of Legal Practice and Development - training lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, the Rwanda National Police College, and the Rwanda Military Academy. His teaching focuses on international tax law, tax law and tax procedures, international commercial arbitration, international trade law, and corporate transactions. He has contributed to curriculum reviews on several occasions, secured four research grants, and supervised over 20 postgraduate and 40 undergraduate dissertations.

Dr. Pie holds a PhD in International Tax Law from Leiden University (Netherlands), an LLM (cum laude) in Business Law, an LLB (cum laude), and several professional diplomas and certifications. He is the author of two books and 16 peer-reviewed research papers published in globally recognized scientific journals. He is nationally acclaimed as Rwanda's leading scholar in tax law and remains the only Rwandan to hold a PhD in the field. His doctoral dissertation was published by the renowned International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam, earning him credits to be the first sub-Saharan African to be featured in the IBFD doctoral series.

Fluent in English, French, and Kinyarwanda, Dr. Pie Habimana is proficient in both civil law and common law systems, and continues to shape legal practice, governance, and scholarship across the region.