Prior to being appointed to his current post, he served as Ambassador of Rwanda to Japan with concurrent accreditation to Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and the Philippines from August 2011 to April 2015.Currently, Ambassador Charles Murigande is the Chairman of the Kepler College’s Governance Council(Rwanda).
In 1960 following the civil strife that preceded Rwanda's independence, his family fled to Burundi, where he grew up as refugee.
He did his graduate and post-graduate studies in Belgium where he obtained in 1986 (with the Greatest Distinction/Sum Cum Laude), a Ph.D in Mathematics from the Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, in Namur.
He joined Howard University, Washington D.C., U.S.A in January 1989 as a Post-doctoral fellow, where he later became an Assistant Professor and Head of the Biostatistical Division of College of Medicine.
[4] During his academic life, Murigande has published several papers in international peer-reviewed Scientific Journals.