Mankolo Beyani

Independent Non-Executive Director
/ The Board of Directors

About Mankolo

About Mankolo

 

Mankolo Beyani is a financial sector professional with over 25 years of combined experience at the central bank, the Bank of Zambia, and at a commercial bank. She joined the Bank of Zambia in 2002 and served for 18 years in key supervisory and regulatory positions in the Bank Supervision Department and Non-Bank Financial Institutions Supervision Department. Her roles included Assistant Director for Examination and Surveillance, Assistant Director for Regulatory Policy, Licensing and Liquidations, Senior Macro-Prudential Analyst, and Financial Analyst. Her expertise spans financial regulation, banking supervision, policy development, and macro-prudential analysis. She was instrumental in the development and implementation of banking sector laws and policies. Mankolo was passionate about policies that support financial inclusion. At a global stage, she served as Chairperson of the SME Working Group of the Financial Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), contributing significantly to international financial inclusion strategies. To foster her expertise in financial inclusion activities, she attended The Fletcher Leadership Programme in Financial Inclusion at Tuft University, USA. She left the Bank of Zambia in 2020 under voluntary early separation, to pursue other interests. Prior to joining the Bank of Zambia, she worked for a Indo Zambia Bank Limited (IZB), for 7 years where she gained experience in commercial banking operations and activities.

 

Mankolo has continued to pursue her career in the financial sector as an independent financial sector consultant and done some work with the International Finance Corporation and central banks in the region. She is currently serving as a Non-Executive Director at Zambia Industrial Commercial Bank (ZICB) since 2024.

Mankolo holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Zambia and a Master’s Degree in International and Development Economics from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

 

Meet the rest of the team

The board of directors

Joseph Chikolwa

Board Chair

Mukwandi Chibesakunda

Non-executive Director

Dirk Holshausen

Non-executive Director

Musonda Chipalo

CEO & Director

Basil Nundwe

Investment Committee Chair

Regina Mulenga

Investment Committee Member

Charles Carey

Investment Committee Member

Keegan Ziady

Board & Investment Committee Observer

Inutu Zaloumis

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mankolo Beyani

Independent Non-Executive Director

The team

Diana Mkonda

Head of Investments

Mbela Mtamboh

Head of Finance and Operations

Crispin Daka

Investment Manager

Noah. S. Siachoto

Investment Manager

Mabuchi Phiri

Executive Assistant-Finance and Operations

Mwila Lumbwe

Finance Associate

Victoria Kawonga

Investment Associate

Excluded Activities are:

  1. Forced Labour or child labour1;
  2. the mining or extracting of precious metals and other geological materials (but excluding services to companies engaged in such activities);
  3. the production of, or trade in:
    • (i) hazardous chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and wastes, as specified in the 2004 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; the 2004 Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides/herbicides in International Trade; the 1992 Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal and WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard Class 1a (extremely hazardous); or 1b (highly hazardous);
    • (ii) ozone depleting substances, as specified in the 1999 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer;
    • (iii) endangered or protected wildlife or wildlife products, as specified in the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or Wild Flora and Fauna;
    • (iv) any other product or activity deemed illegal under applicable local or national laws or regulations or subject to internationally agreed phase-outs or bans as defined in global conventions and agreements;
    • (v) arms (i.e. weapons, munitions or nuclear products, primarily designated for military purposes); or
    • (vi) radioactive materials (excluding medical equipment, quality control (measurement) equipment, civilian power generation and any equipment in which the radioactive source could reasonably be considered to be trivial or adequately shielded);
  4. the production of, use of, or trade in unbonded asbestos fibres;
  5. unsustainable fishing methods such as blast fishing and drift net fishing in the marine environment using nets in excess of 2.5 kilometres in length;
  6. pornography or prostitution;
  7. any of the following, to the extent that the activities represent more than 10% of the Group’s underlying portfolio volumes:
    • (i) gambling, gaming casinos and equivalent enterprises;
    • (ii) tobacco or tobacco related products (except where the Group proposes to cease such activities completely within a period agreed with the ‘A’ Investors); and
  8. Destruction2 of High Conservation Value areas3
  9. Racist and/or anti-democratic media

Additional Excluded Activities means any of the following activities:

  1. speculative and/or unregulated use of cryptocurrencies;
  2. AI where it poses “unacceptable risk” as defined in the EU AI Act 2021;
  3. social media targeting children and other vulnerable people, and dating apps;
  4. products and services primarily designed for national security and intelligence services (e.g., NSO Group) where there is a reasonable risk of human rights abuses;
  5. any business if alcoholic beverages (except beer and wine) represent a substantial portion of such business;
  6. animal and human cloning; or
  7. prisons and detention centres.

Excluded Healthcare Activities means:

  1. any facility dedicated to high end cosmetic procedures and/or surgeries; or
  2. any private multi-specialty hospital that does not satisfy at least one of the Hospital Investment Criteria (as defined below).

The Hospital Investment Criteria shall be deemed satisfied if, at the date of the investment, the private multi-specialty hospital either significantly serves or demonstrates an intention to serve: (i) patients in the target segment of government payor public schemes; or (ii) patients living on US$ 8.00 or less per day. Investments in single specialty hospitals, and primary and secondary care chains are not subject to the Hospital Investment Criteria.

Excluded Education Activities means companies that are primarily involved in private, fee-charging schools that provide education from kindergarten (or equivalent) to the final year prior to tertiary level education, or companies that Primarily provide educational services to private, fee-charging schools such that they resemble private fee-charging schools (Barred K-12 Activity).

Primarily for purposes of the paragraph above is defined as where (i) for companies, more than 10% of its consolidated balance sheet or earnings, or (ii) for financial institutions, more than 10% of its portfolio volumes, comes from a Barred K-12 Activity.

 


 

  • 1 Persons may only be employed if they are at least 14 years old, as defined in the ILO Fundamental Human Rights Conventions
    (Minimum Age Convention C138, Art. 2), unless local legislation specifies compulsory school attendance or the minimum age for
    working. In such cases the higher age shall apply.
  • 2 Destruction means the (1) elimination or severe diminution of the integrity of an area caused by a major, long-term change in land or water use or (2) modification of a habitat in such a way that the area’s ability to maintain its role is lost.
  • 3 High Conservation Value (HCV) areas are defined as natural habitats where these values are considered to be of outstanding significance or critical importance (See http://www.hcvnetwork.org).