Emmanuel Ndikumana

Emmanuel Ndikumana is the Founder and CEO of Partners Trust International (PTI), a not-for-profit organisation that invests in leadership and pastoral development through a triad of a school of theology and leadership, an international fellowship, and a development agency. He is the Francophone Africa Regional Director of the Lausanne Movement as well as the board chair for the Great Lakes Initiative (GLI), a community of restless Christian leaders across the African Great Lakes Region seeking to embody God’s vision of reconciliation, to inspire, form, and support other leaders in the region and beyond. Emmanuel has served previously with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) first as the General Secretary for Burundi and later as the Training Secretary for Francophone Africa. He holds an MA degree in missiology; a BA (Hon.) degree in biblical and intercultural studies from All Nations Christian College/the Open University (UK). He is currently a PhD research student with the Oxford Center for Mission Studies in the UK.