Mr. David SABITI is a senior project management and technology professional with over 20 years of experience in regional development, ICT, telecommunications, fintech, digital platforms, monitoring and evaluation, and policy development.
He currently serves as Project Coordinator at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), leading the coordination of a World Bank-funded Inclusive Digitalization for Eastern and Southern Africa (IDEA) regional programme within COMESA’s Infrastructure and Logistics Division, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, stakeholder engagement, performance monitoring, reporting, and support to national implementation units.
Previously, David served as Programme Team Leader for an EU-funded regional ICT programme at COMESA and Project Coordinator for the African Development Bank-funded 50 Million African Women Speak digital platform. Before joining COMESA, he held senior roles at MTN Rwanda, where he led telecommunications infrastructure rollout, mobile-money integration, and network-modernisation initiatives, as well as senior IT and monitoring and evaluation assignments in Rwanda’s public and telecommunications sectors.
David holds a Master of Information Technology and a Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Informatics from the University of Pretoria, and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from La Roche University.
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