Chakwera reconstitutes private sector council to align with ATM Strategy, vision 2030-63

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-President Lazarus Chakwera has reconstituted his Private Sector Council to align with vision 2030 and Malawi’s agenda 2063.

In a press statement issued on Thursday, June 12, 2025 signed by Presidential Press Secretary Anthony Kasunda, the council has 20 membership from key private sector including finance, technology, agriculture, transport, entrepreneuriaship and among others.

The statement reads in part, “The Presidential Private Sector Council is a body established by the President to adviseand collaborate with him on innovative ways and policies to create an enabling environment for investment, trade and private sector growth.

“Its existence aligns with His Excellency’s ATM Strategy of targeting private and public sector investments in thesectors of Agriculture, Tourism, Mining and Manufacturing as engines for achieving
wealth creation, job creation and food security in pursuit of the Malawi 2063 Vision ofturning Malawi into an inclusively wealthy, self-reliant, industrialised middle-income economy by 2030″.

Kasunda adds, “The Council will serve as the highest platform for public-private dialogue and will meet
the President directly and regularly over the course of its two-year tenure”.

The reconstituted Presidential Private Sector Council and the new membership is as follows:

1. Dr. Betty Chinyamunyamu, Chief Executive Officer, NASFAM
2. Mr. Ronald Ngwira, Managing Director, Pyxus Malawi Limited
3. Mr. Boyd Luwe, Managing Director, SeedCo Malawi Limited
4. Mr. Manzoor Bheda, Managing Director, Kakuyu Estate
5. Mr. George Kachingwe, Managing Director, Hail & Cotton
6. Mr. Andrew Barron of Mbabzi Estate
7. Mr. Sam Mwale, Chief Executive Officer, Sunbird Tourism
8. Mr. Ranjan Pereira, Managing Director, Serendib Group of Hotels & Chairperson
   of the Asian Association of Malawi
9. Dr. Napoleon Dzombe, Entrepreneur, Kalipano Hotel
10. Dr. Grain Malunga, Consultant
11. Mrs. Lusubilo Chakaniza, Chief Executive Officer, Ethanol Company Limited
12. Ms. Daisy Kambalame, Chief Executive Officer, MCCCI
13. Mrs. Temwani Simwaka, Chief Executive Officer, NBS Bank PLC
14. Dr. Christopher Guta, Consultant
15. Dr. Ronald Mangani, Group Chief Executive Officer, Press Corporation PLC
16. Mr. Vizenge Kumwenda, Group Managing Director, NICO Holdings PLC
17. Mr. Jayesh Patel, Managing Director, Chipiku Stores
18. Mr. Arnold Mbwana, Consultant
19. Mr. Jimmy Lipunga, Consultant
    20.Mr. Ufulu Loga, Managing Director, Trans Tech Logistics
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Lloyd M’bwana

I’m a Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resource (LUANAR)’s Environmental Science graduate (Malawi) and UK’s ICM Journalism and Media studies scholar. Also University of Malawi (UNIMA) Library Science Scholar. I have been The Malawi Country Manager and duty editor for the Maravi Post since 2019. My duty editor’s job is to ensure that the news is covered properly, that it is delivered on time, and that it is created to the standards set out in the editorial guidelines of the Maravi Post.