DR. CHIMHANZI
IDC SENIOR STRATEGIST, INFLUENTIAL YOUNG AFRICAN WOMAN TO WATCH
Pic courtesy of Dr. Chimhanzi Zimbabwean-born Dr. Jacqueline Chimhanzi is Senior Strategist at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) which has a mandate to promote and fund industrialisation in SA and the rest of the African continent. Prior to that, she was Lead, Africa Desk with Deloitte South Africa. Featured on the Forbes 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa 2012 list – women under 45 who are shaping the narrative of the continent’s rising - she is a Fellow of the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Programme, Oxford University and a founding member of New Faces New Voices - under the patronage of Mrs Graca Machel - which is committed to widening financial access for African women entrepreneurs.
She holds a BSc (Hons), MBA (with Distinction) and a PhD (Strategic Marketing) - all from Cardiff Business School, UK.
At the beginning of the South African winter in 2013, Dr. Chimhanzi took time off her busy schedule to speak to The Expatriate SA magazine.
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