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.