Jack Ngarambe is an architectural engineer by training, holding a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degree from Kyung Hee University in South Korea. He currently serves as the Director General of Urbanisation, Housing Development, and Human Settlement at the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure. In this role, he oversees and coordinates national urbanisation and housing projects in collaboration with other governmental institutions and numerous global development partners.
Before his tenure in the Rwandan government, Dr. Ngarambe was a research professor at Kyung Hee University. His research primarily focused on sustainable built environments , building physics, and control. He was actively involved in significant urban sustainability projects funded by the National Research Fund of Korea (NRF), the Korea Energy Agency (KEA), and the Korea Energy Technology Evaluation & Planning (KETEP). Additionally, he lectured on innovative technologies in resilient and sustainable built environments, net-zero energy and passive building designs, statistical theories, and research methodologies.