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Miles Sampa (born December 26, 1970) is the Member of Parliament for Matero Constituency, in Lusaka and serves in the Government of the Republic of Zambia as Deputy Minister for Commerce and Industry. Prior to his current ministerial portifolio, he served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Finance and National Development. Before actively joining politics, Sampa was the Executive Director of Treasury and International Banking at Finance Bank (Zambia) Limited.

On November 14, 2014, Miles Sampa filed for nomination for the PF presidency following the death of party and country President Michael Sata. His election at the party’s extra-ordinary congress on November 29, 2014 in Kabwe would see him stand in the national Presidential By-election on January 20, 2015 which seeks to replace the late President.

Professional Career
Miles Sampa’s professional career starts in 1995 when, as a student, he was on industrial attachment at Momba Dairy Farm in Choma, Southern Province, where he worked for a year.

From 1997 to 1998 he worked as Farm Manager at Opportunity Centre Farm, in the farming bloke of Lusaka West.

1998, Miles Sampa joined Barclays Bank Zambia as Trainee Manager at the bank’s Lusaka and Kitwe branches. He only spent a year.

From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Agronomist and Business Manager for Export Vegetables at Agriflora Zambia Ltd in Lusaka.

In 2001, Sampa went back to Barclays Bank Zambia where he worked as Head of Treasury Sales and later as the Acting Treasurer of the bank before he left in 2003.

In 2004, Sampa left his country, Zambia, to work in South Africa as Director of Treasury & Money Market at Loita Capital in Johannesburg.

He returned to Zambia in 2006 when he was spotted by Finance Bank (Zambia) Limited where he served Executive Director of Treasury & International Banking until 2010.

Political career
Miles Sampa joined the Patriotic Front from its inception in 2001 where he served on the political party’s Resource and Finance Mobilization Team until 2011. In, He was part of the PF’s countrywide campaign trail for the 2006 General Elections (Presidential, Parliamentary and local government).

In early 2011, he was appointed to the PF’s Central Committee, the party’s policy organ, as Chairperson for Commerce.

It was in the 2011 General Elections that Miles Sampa would pass his political test when he contested for a seat in the Zambian National Assembly. He stood on the party’s ticket as a candidate for MP for Matero, a vast constituency in the capital, Lusaka.

From the elections of September 20, 2011, Miles Sampa was overwhelmingly voted as the new MP for Matero, collecting 37,500 votes, thereby achieving the mark as the parliamentary candidate with highest tally of votes in the whole country.

After the new government of Michael Sata’s administration was sworn in on September 28, President Sata appointed Sampa as Deputy Minister for Lusaka Province. In 2012, he was transferred in the same capacity to Southern Province. The same year, he was moved to the Ministry of Finance and National Development where he was the delegation leader of the Eurobond task team which raised $750m for Zambia at 5.25 % (12 times over-subscribed and best price ever for an African Country on the world capital market).

In 2013, Sampa represented Zambia and presented a paper at the United Nations’ ECOSOC Forum in New York, NY.

In the same year, President Sata transferred Sampa in the same capacity to the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry.

Business interests
Miles Sampa has business interests in and outside Zambia in real estate, transport, media, print, entertainment, security and finance. He is also a business consultant.

Other engagements and activities
Miles Sampa is an active sports person and a lover of soccer. Since 2007, he has been the owner of Division 2 Matero United FC which got promoted to Division 1 at the end of the 2013-14 season in November 2014. He served as a Committee Member of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) from 2009 to 2010.

He also has been Patron for Lusaka Tigers Football Club (FAZ Division 1) since 2011.

While at university, Sampa captained the Unza Pacers, University of Zambia’s basketball team, having done the same at secondary (high) school.

He was the Treasurer for the Lusaka Golf Club from 2004 to 2007.

From 1999 to 2001, Sampa served as Chairman of Round Table number 15

From 2003 to 2007 he was President of the Financial Markets Associations of Zambia (FOREX traders).

Personal life and education
Born December 26, 1970, Miles is the sixth-born child of Justin Martin Kasonde Sampa and Euphraisia Bwalya Lubemba Sampa, a rural-urban migrant couple from the Northern Province of Zambia who settled in Lusaka. His paternal grandfather originally hailed from Kasama in Northern Province but later settled in Fyempulo Village, Mpika, in today’s Muchinga Province, where Justin Sampa was born. His mother, Euphrasia was born in the adjacent Chitulika village where her Bemba parents settled from Chinsali, Northern Province.

Miles attended Matero Primary School in Matero, Lusaka, from 1978 to 1985. In 1986 he proceeded to do his secondary education at Namwianga Christian School in Kalomo, Southern Province, where he graduated with a Grade 12 Ordinary Level General Certificate of Secondary Education in 1989.

From 1990 to 1991, Miles studied the Russian Language in Kiev, Ukraine, then under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Upon his return to Zambia, Miles enrolled for Bachelor of Sciences (Bsc) degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Zambia where he successfully graduated in 1996.

Miles also has a Certificate in Banking Operations and Banking Law for which he studied from 1998 to 2000 and Trading Certificate in Money Markets, Capital and FOREX Markets which he obtained in 2002.

He studied for his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from 2003 to 2006 at the Milpark Business School in South Africa where he was awarded the “Strategic Management” top student award.

In 2013, while serving as government deputy minister, Sampa attended the Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Governments for the Executive Programme Certificate.

He is presently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme in

Miles Sampa is married and lives in Lusaka with his family.