User:Asa Mbulaja Mwaipopo

Born in 1962, on December 28th, to a School Teacher's Family at Kabanga in Kasulu, western Tanzania. Asa Mbulaja Mwaipopo is a Mining Engineer by trade, having graduated with a Bachelors degree from the University of Zambia and a Masters degree from Camborne School of Mines in the UK. He worked in the government of Tanzania in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals before joining a private sector in Exploration and Mining. He has served in the Tanzanian Mining Industry as a Mining Engineer and worked his way up to Manager Mining in AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick and is now working at a similar capacity with Mantra Tanzania Limited, a company developing the first Uranium Mine in Tanzania. He is a member of various professional bodies including the Austrasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Institution of Engineers Tanzania and is registered with the Engineers Registration Board of Tanzania. Outside the career life he is a married man with three children and of the Lutheran Church following. He enjoys adventurous expeditions having climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice and done half Kilimanjaro marathon. He also likes playing squash and the general fitness activities. He passionately participates in political and professional dialogues of interest to development of Tanzania and changing of Africa.