Chitemwa Kapaya is a seasoned finance and investment professional with over 15 years of international banking experience across Europe and Africa. She has held senior roles at Stanbic Bank Zambia, Standard Bank South Africa and Goldman Sachs, where she led major corporate financing, debt structuring, and investment banking transactions. At Stanbic Zambia, she nearly tripled its corporate loan book from circa ZMW1.3bn in 2019 to ZMW3.4bn in 2023.
Renowned for driving sustainable finance and private sector growth, Chitemwa has delivered award-winning deals across multiple sectors, including a USD120million syndicated facility for Zambia Sugar.
A Rhodes Scholarship alumnus, he holds MSc degrees in Financial Economics and Management Research from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor’s inAccountancy from the University of Namibia.