MEET DR. PAMELA MAMBWE NAKAMBA – ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT
By Alexander Nkosi
She graduated in 1996 from the University of Zambia as an Economics major. Upon graduation she was awarded a scholarship to study for a Master’s degree in economics at the University of Nairobi. The scholarship was funded by the Africa Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). When she completed her Masters, she joined the Department of Economics at the University of Zambia as a lecturer. In 2005, she was awarded a second scholarship by the Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC), another ACBF-supported institution, to study at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa under the Collaborative PhD Programme (CPP). After obtaining a PhD in Economics in 2010, she returned to the University of Zambia.
She later joined the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis (ZIPAR) as a research fellow where she rose to the position of acting Director and later on confirmed as Executive Director, a position she held until a few months ago.
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