Speaker Profile: Mainga Mukando

_{^{Mainga Mukando is an investment professional with over 30 years of experience in investment and corporate finance, mainly focused on development finance and private equity in Eastern and Southern Africa. His current position is as Chief Investments Officer at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), where he spearheads the Zambian Government’s commercial investments agenda aimed at strengthening Zambia’s industrial base and job creation. He has held this position since March 2024. Before that Mainga was a Director in a start-up private equity fund investing in East Africa and Zambia, and an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation in Nairobi, Kenya. Mainga is a member of the Institute of Directors Zambia and sits as a director on boards in Zambia.}}