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CHISHALA KATEKA PRESIDENT - NEW HERITAGE PARTY

Chishala Kateka has made her mark in the corporate world, and has often been described as a woman of integrity and valour.

The 64-year-old economist also trained as an accountant but stepped into the political arena in 2020 where she leads the New Heritage Party. She becomes the fourth woman in Zambia to lead a political party and also to stand as a Presidential Candidate.

Chishala Kateka graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree with Economics from the University of Zambia in 1979. She is a Fellow Chartered Accountant having qualified as a member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (subsequently Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – ACCA.

Chishala Kateka has been in charge of audits for a large number of financial institutions including Bank of Botswana. She was until May 2001 CEO for Kafue Textiles of Zambia at the time, the largest integrated textile company in Sub Saharan Africa. She was the Principal Consultant for the World Bank on the Copperbelt Economic Diversification Workshop Project. She subsequently became the Coordinator of the National Economic Diversification Programme in Zambia, a project co-funded by the World Bank and the Zambian Government.

Chishala Kateka was also principal consultant, for the World Bank on the 2002 Consultative Group meeting in Livingstone.

From 2012 to December 2017, she represented the African Jurisdiction on the International Ethics Standard Board of Accountants of the International Federation of Accountants in New York.

Ms Kateka Chaired the Barclays/ABSA Board as well as that of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in addition to other Board responsibilities. She stepped off these Boards in order to focus on her political career.

She is the author of “Let Us Pray for Zambia”, and also a familiar voice on radio as the presenter of a programme called “Occupy Till I Come” on Radio Christian Voice.