I hold a PhD with a focus on Public Finance Management and have spent my career working at the intersection of public finance, political economy, and development practice in Malawi and across Sub-Saharan Africa. I am a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), a Chartered Accountant with the Malawi Accountants Board, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM), and hold an MBA from the University of Derby, in addition to a BSc in Accounting. My work has spanned auditing public systems and managing financial oversight for major development initiatives, a vantage point that has shown me firsthand how policy decisions are actually made and how resources are allocated.
That experience has convinced me that development conversations too often fail the public: too technical, too politicised, too fragmented to support genuine understanding or reform.
This platform exists to close that gap. It interrogates the political economy behind policy choices, on fiscal pressure, governance, and climate shocks, and makes public finance and development discourse rigorous without making it inaccessible. Beyond a newsletter, it is a community: finance professionals, economists, political scholars, and practitioners working through the hard problems in public finance, agriculture, infrastructure, and investment.
The commitment here is simple: evidence over narrative, clarity over jargon, and accountability over comfort. I offer evidence-based analysis, question conventional wisdom where the evidence warrants it, and argue from real-world experience rather than abstraction. I welcome readers who want the same: thoughtful engagement aimed at practical solutions, not just commentary.
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