Our Skilled Leaders
Hon. Geofrey Idelphonce Mwambe(MP.)
President, Economic Society of TanzaniaHonorable Geoffrey Idelphonce Mwambe is the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for Investment of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania. Honorable Mwambe, who prior served as a Minister of Industry and Trade, is a Member of Parliament representing Masasi Town Constituency.
He is the former Executive Director of Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) since May 2017 and the former District Commissioner for Manyoni District in Singida region. Honorable Mwambe has served in the Boards of Directors of Central Bank of Tanzania and Tanzania Revenue Authority among others.
He is a former employee of the Central Bank (The Bank of Tanzania – BoT) as a senior economist and former Director of Trade, Investment and Productive Sectors in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation where he headed various Bilateral Trade Negotiations and participated on various Regional Trade Arrangements.
Honorable Mwambe is an experienced economist and researcher specializing in areas of International Trade, Fiscal and Monetary Policies, Macroeconomics, International Investment, International Economics and Economic Growth. He holds a Master Degree of Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam and attended various trainings at local, regional and international levels.
Honorable Mwambe Minister welcomes prospective investors to come and invest in Tanzania in mining, tourism, manufacturing (pharmaceuticals, leather, edible oil, garments/clothing, ICT accessories assembling, etc), industrial parks, agriculture, livestock, ICT, Special Economic Zones, Export Processing Zones, agroprocessing and in the blue economy. Rest be assured that in Tanzania you you and your assets will be safe and policies are incentive-based, predictable and stable.
Prof. Jehovaness Aikaeli
Vice President, Economic Society of TanzaniaProfessor Jehovaness Aikaeli is affiliated with the School of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam. Before joining the University as a Lecturer, Aikaeli was a Senior Economist at the Bank of Tanzania for a decade. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam and has extensively researched and undertaken consultancies in the areas of finance (public & private), efficiency and productivity, labour market and employment, productivity and growth. His research experience spans across several countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. Aikaeli has been a consultant to several domestic and international organizations.
Aikaeli has been serving the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (Trapca) as a visiting faculty, and he has supported the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) in the preparation of materials and running the regional integration courses. Aikaeli has been a visiting Lecturer for the collaborative master’s programme (CMAP) under the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) – specifically for Financial Economics. Furthermore, he teaches extensively, including Advanced Macroeconomics, Finance and Investment, Monetary Economics, and Public Sector Economics.