Dr. Pie Habimana is a Rwandan senior academic, arbitrator and business law expert with 15+ years of experience. He was called to the Bar in 2011 and is the founder and Chairperson of Amilex Chambers. He specialises in international tax law and has expertise in tax, arbitration, corporate and commercial transactions, corporate governance and compliance. He is pragmatic, independent and critical thinker. He has been consulted by various high level institutions such as the World Bank, the UNECA, the UNESCO, the Rwanda Governance Board, and the High Education Council (Rw) and regularly advises companies on various business legal issues. He regularly appears in the Supreme Court to challenge legislation or to submit high-level opinions as amicus curiae. He has acted as an expert witness in international arbitration and dispute adjudication proceedings on several occasions.

Dr. Pie sits on the Board of Bank of Kigali Plc; Multisector Investment Group Plc; and Rwanda Bar Association. He is also a member of the Supreme Court’s committee on law reporting and a Disciplinary commissioner of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda (ICPAR). In the past, he served as the Vice-President of the East Africa Law Society, Independent Non-Executive Director of Cogebanque Plc, and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Printer Set Ltd. He is Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and he is a senior arbitrator on the panel of arbitrators and adjudicators of the Kigali International Arbitration Centre (KIAC), a senior member of the Rwanda Bar Association (RBA), a member (MCIArb) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK, the African Arbitration Association (AfAA), the International Bar Association (IBA), the African Business Integrity Network (ABIN), and SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre (SADRC).

In academia, Dr. Pie has an academic experience of 14+ years. He is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean of the School of Law, University of Rwanda. He is a regular visiting senior lecturer at the Institute of Legal Practice and Development, and Rwanda National Police College. His teaching focuses on international tax law, tax law and tax procedures, international commercial arbitration, international trade law, and corporate and commercial transactions. In several occasions, he was engaged for curriculum reviews. He has benefited four research grants and has supervised more than twenty postgraduate and more than thirty undergraduate dissertations. He is also an Approved faculty member (tutor) of introduction to international commercial arbitration by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).

Dr. Pie holds a PhD in International Tax Law from the prestigious Leiden Law School of Leiden University (the Netherlands), an LLM (cum laude) in Business Law and an LLB (cum laude) from the University of Rwanda, a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice and several postgraduate certificates from Kenya, Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK). He is the author of two books and thirteen scholarly peer-reviewed research papers published in world-reputed scientific journals. Dr. Pie is nationally recognized as a champion of tax law scholarship and is the only Rwandan with a PhD in the field of tax law. His dissertation was published by the renowned International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), based in Amsterdam, earning him credits to be the first sub-Saharan African to publish in the IBFD doctoral series. The book costs $140 VAT exclusive. He is fluent in English, French, and Kinyarwanda (native) and has mastery of civil law and common law legal systems.