Dalitso Kabambe

Dalitso Kabambe (born 1973) is an economist, banker and politician from Malawi. He served as the 13th Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi from 2017 until 2020
Career.
Kabambe is a Malawian development economist who was appointed Governor for the Reserve Bank of Malawi on 21 April 2017 by the then Malawi President Peter Mutharika.
Prior to his governorship of the country's central bank, Kabambe worked in the Malawi Government Economic Service for a period of 19 years from 1998. He held different positions such as Principal Economist, Chief Economist, Deputy Director of Economic Planning and, Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development. He also served as Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for close to 2 years. He was replaced as governor by Wilson Banda on 9 July 2020.
Person Life.
Kabambe is married to Brigitte Kabambe. The couple has three children. He is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church where he is also a Church Elder.
Education.
He holds a PhD and a master's degree in Development Economics from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom which he obtained in 2008 and 2001 respectively. He got his first degree from the University of Malawi in 1998.
Joining Politics.
Kabambe publicly announced his decision to join active politics on 31 December 2020 when he was unveiled as a member of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (Malawi). Media reports indicate Kabambe will run to be leader of the party in order to stand as its torchbearer in the 2025 Malawi presidential elections. He is yet to announce his candidacy for the DPP leadership seat.
Controversies.
Kabambe was rocked in a salary controversy when it emerged that as governor of Malawi's central bank, his monthly perk was billed at K24 million (about US$30,000). In an interview with Zodiak, Kabambe confirmed the reports, saying his salary was approved by the Bank's board in line with the Reserve Bank of Malawi Act of Parliament and his years of service.
While reports indicate that salary for Kabambe's successor, Wilson Banda, has been reviewed, this has not not yet been evidentially confirmed by any of the country's media outlets. One of the country's civil society organisations (CSOs) described as politically motivated the forensic audit that leaked Kabambe's salary owing to the ex-governor's decision to join active politics. The organisation, Centre for Democracy and Economic Development (CDEDI), claimed in a report that it released to the media that the audit was illegal and that the leakage smacked of a conspiracy to stop Kabambe from becoming DPP's torchbearer in order to oust the incumbent president, Lazarus Chakwera in the 2025 Malawi presidential elections. The organisation called the audit illegal.