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Charity Chanda Lumpa is the board chairperson of Zambia National Commercial Bank and the first female to hold that position. She was also the first female and Zambian to be appointed into the role of Managing Director of Airtel Networks Zambia PLC. and has also held roles such as Managing Director of the Zambia National Tourism Board, Ecobank Zambia Limited and the St. Ignatius College of the Jesuits. In 2008, she was credited for successfully setting up Ecobank Zambia Limited as a greenfield financial institution before becoming its founding Managing Director.

Charity holds over 32 years of working experience in the insurance, banking, tourism and telecommunications industries as well as functional expertise in credit risk, retail banking, marketing, managing people and performance. She serves on the board of Air Namibia, Livingstone International University of Tourism Excellence and Business Management, and the project board of the Women’s Bank Zambia Limited, Chairman of SOS Children’s Villages Zambia and the Government owned Hostels Board of Management. She further serves as an investment panelist on the Malawi Innovation Challenge Fund as well as being the Vice Chairman of the Taskforce for establishing the Zambia National Advisory Board for Impact Investing.

Education
She holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration specialised in Finance, a first degree in Public Administration and a postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Management. She successfully completed the University of Oxford Women Transforming Leadership Programme, and is working on her Civility certification with Civility Experts Inc.