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Maxwell Mkwezalamba

Non-executive Director at African Risk Capacity Limited

Maxwell Mkwezalamba is a professional economist based in Lilongwe, Malawi, possessing more than three decades of experience in academia, the private sector, national government, as well as regional and international organisations. His areas of focus vary across macroeconomic policy and analysis, public finance, international finance and development, regional integration and development, private sector development, policy dialogue and partnership engagement. Maxwell graduated from Chancellor College at the University of Malawi with an honours degree in Economics, where he subsequently lectured and headed the Economics Department. He obtained a master's degree in Economics in 1984 from the University of Manchester in the UK, a master's degree in Policy Economics in 1992, and a PhD in Economics in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US.