Board of Directors

Dr. Mlambo is a renowned economist and chairs the Board of the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe.  He was the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe from July 2012 up to the time of retirement from the apex Bank. As Deputy Governor, he was also a member of the RBZ Board of Directors. Dr Mlambo joined the RBZ from the African Development Bank where he rose from the rank of Senior Economist in 1997 to the post of Regional Director in January 2012. He was in charge of country strategy formulation, country portfolio programming and management as well as leading policy dialogue in 7 countries in East Africa. Dr Mlambo’s areas of expertise include macro-economic and exchange rate policy, economic growth, finance, investment, and productivity growth and efficiency analysis. He has published papers in referred journals. 

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Gothenburg University is Sweden an M.Sc.  Economics from the University of Zimbabwe.

Dr Naomi Netsayi Wekwete is a senior lecturer in the Department of Demography, Settlement and Development at the University of Zimbabwe. 

She has 25 years of experience in conducting policy-oriented research, monitoring and evaluation of programmes/projects, and consultancy work for Government ministries, nongovernmental organizations and international organizations. She has won several research grants. She was engaged in national projects, including Tugwi-Mukosi Master Plan and the New City Master Plan.

Dr Naomi Wekwete holds a B.Sc (Hon.) Economics (UZ), M.Sc Population Studies (UZ) and Ph.D in Applied Population Research (University of Exeter, UK.

Andries Rukobo has close to 40 years of experience in academia, research and public service at administrative and management level. Experience has also included stints as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Economies, Tokyo, Japan: IDS Sussex, Institute of Development Policy and Management, Manchester and African Development Bank, among others.

He previously served as Chairman of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe.

Dr Andries Rukobo holds a BA (Hon.) Degree, MA, M.Phil and Ph.D (Agrarian Relations and Economic Development) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Arina Manyanya is a qualified economist with 34 years’ experience working in the public sector, and proven track record in project and programme planning, appraisal and management, budget formulation and management, project and programme monitoring and evaluation, policy analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender mainstreaming, result based management and public expenditure management.

Mrs Manyanya is the Acting Director Projects and Programmes Implementation Monitoring in the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion. She also sits on the Board of Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (ZIPAM).

Mrs Manyanya holds a B.Sc (Hon) Economics (UZ) and M.Sc Economist (UZ).

Dr Mbuyisa is a renowned academic, currently serving as the Acting Dean in the Faculty of Commerce at the Zimbabwe Open University, and before that she has served as the chairperson in the Department of Banking and Finance. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance at the Zimbabwe Open University in Bulawayo Regional Campus. She has been working in this department for more than 10 years, during which she has contributed many units of published ZOU modules and published several papers in referred journals. 

Dr Mbuyisa is an accomplished banker, with vast experience in business development. The beginning of her profession as a Banker was largely driven by the marginalised who need finance to run their projects. She started her career as a Business Development officer at a local bank and she worked as a banker in several banks. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Development Finance & Entrepreneurial Economics), from the university of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a Master’s in Business Administration Degree (NUST), and a Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Banking (NUST). Her research interests are in Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Poverty Alleviation issues, Development Finance, Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. As part of her social responsibility, she has been a board member in one of the Non-Governmental Organisations that offers psychosocial support by being proactive, preventive, informative and rendering empowerment to alleviate the cases of child sexual abuse. Additionally, she was appointed as a board member for Brethren in Christ Zimbabwe in August 2022 and was re-appointed in August 2024. She sits on several committees at Zimbabwe Open University and in some organisations.

Mr. Zvirevo is a Chartered Accountant with diverse professional experience. With a strong investment banking background, he brings hands-on experience in business case development, investment appraisal, project finance, capital raising, and alternative investments. He is a seasoned finance and banking professional who has worked in middle and senior managerial positions for KPMG Corporate Finance, NMB Bank Limited, and Sagit Finance House Limited, and then as Partner at AMG Global Chartered Accountants (Zimbabwe)  in charge of the firm's Corporate Finance practice. Prior to joining the IDBZ, Willing was in the Cayman Islands where he gained 7 years of alternative investments experience whilst working for the Citco Group, the world's largest hedge funds administrator. He has strong insights into alternative investment platforms, including knowledge of fund structures, investment strategies, and complex financial products.

Prior to being appointed the Acting Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Zvirevo was a Director for Resource Mobilisation and Climate Finance, where he was responsible for driving the Bank’s resource mobilisation strategy which encompasses the Bank's capitalisation initiatives; strategic partnerships with other DFIs and Multilateral Finance Institutions; project financing and debt issuance programmes; and climate finance initiatives.