Romain Murenzi serves as the executive director of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, for the advancement of science in developing countries, Trieste, Italy. He also oversees the administration of OWSD, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, for roles of women in science, innovation, technology, and engineering. Murenzi initially joined TWAS in April 2011. From 2016 to 2017, he directed the UNESCO Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building in the Natural Sciences sector. Before joining TWAS, he served as Rwanda's Minister of Education, S&T and Scientific Research (2001–2006), and as Minister in the President's Office in Charge of S&T and Scientific Research, with responsibilities including ICT (March 2006–July 2009). In 2009, he was a senior scholar at AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Sustainable Development; he served as director from 2010–2011. Murenzi was born in Rwanda in 1959 and raised in Burundi. He earned his BSc from the National University of Burundi in 1982 and MSc (1986) and PhD from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium (1990). He also holds a Master of Laws in Information Technology and Telecommunication Laws (2013), and the University of Johannesburg conferred an honorary doctorate in recognition of his achievements and contributions to society (April 2019). His interests include multidimensional continuous wavelet transforms to quantum mechanics, image and video processing, and science and technology policy.