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.