Andrew Chipwende

Andrew is the head of the Public Private Dialogue Forum. His expertise is in private sector development and reforms, business development, privatization, investment management, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring.

Prior to that, he was a part-time member of a UK-based private equity firm investing primarily in energy within Southern Africa. He previously headed the Zambia Privatization Agency (including that of Technical Director and Business Analysis Team Head); the Zambia Development Agency from 2008-2014; he set up and headed the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) from 2014-2016; he was advisor to the National Commission of Privatization in Sierra Leone covering reforms in energy, telecommunications, banking and port facilities.

Andrew’s prominent consulting roles include: heading the development of a Beef Industry Reform Strategy for Botswana Meat Commission, for the Botswana Government from 2018 to 2019 and developing a restructuring and recapitalization plan for a Zambian majority-owned commercial bank.

Andrew’s earlier career roles include those of an Agricultural Statistician on the Early Warning System in Food Security in the Ministry of Agriculture and an analyst for agricultural price controls at the Prices and Incomes Commission.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (minor Mathematical Statistics) from UNZA (1988), is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2012) and has several specialized certificates in Financial and Corporate Restructuring, Valuations, Privatization, and Computing. He is a non-executive Director of Thebe Investment Management Company (a US $300 million property development management firm), Leopards Pride Limited (an agro investment firm), Madison Financial Services PLC, and Mytalu (a FinTech), and he serves on the boards of several state enterprises.