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Yvonne Mhango is a Malawian
economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...
. She is the economist for
Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the list of sovereign states and ...
at
Renaissance Capital Renaissance Capital is an emerging and frontier markets focused investment bank founded in 1995 in Russia. The firm has offices in Moscow, London, New York, Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo and Nicosia. Both Alexander Provotorov (born 7 November 1974, M ...
.


Background and education

She attended
Saint Andrews International High School The St. Andrew's International School in Blantyre, Malawi was founded there in 1938 under British rule by the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland Mission. The high school in its present form was established in 1958. SAIntS is a British Internatio ...
in
Blantyre Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264 . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is ...
, Malawi, where she studied Mathematics, Geography and Economics at A-Level, from 1996 until 1998. She was then admitted to the
University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) (, ) is a public university, public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest univer ...
in 1999, graduating with a
Bachelor of Business Science The Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSci) is a four-year honours level degree providing for a scientifically based study of economic and management sciences, "premised on the application of quantitative methods". The degree is offered in South A ...
in 2002. From 2003 until 2004, she studied at the same university, graduating with a Master of Business Science.


Career

From 2005 until 2008, Mhango was an economist at
Standard Bank of South Africa Standard Bank (officially Standard Bank Group Limited) is the largest bank in Africa, as well as the continent's biggest lender by assets. The company's corporate headquarters, Standard Bank Centre, is located in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The ...
. In June 2008, she became the head of economic research for Africa at Standard Bank, serving in that capacity until November 2010. Since November 2010, she has been the economist for sub-Saharan Africa at Renaissance Capital. In June 2016, following the
Central Bank of Nigeria The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is the central bank and apex monetary authority of Nigeria established by the CBN Act of 1958 and commenced operations on 1 July 1959. The major regulatory objectives of the bank as stated in the CBN Act are t ...
's decision to allow the niara to freely float against other currencies, Mhango said that floating the naira freely would "release a pressure valve for the economy", which would in turn "see the economy beginning to thaw and green shoots emerge possibly as soon as a year from now". Mhango, with others had correctly predicted such a devaluation in the naira, following the flotation of the
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
currency in August 2015. In October 2016, Mhango and other economists at Renaissance Capital said that the Kenya Shilling was about 20 percent overvalued and that this was hurting
Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...
's exports to other countries in the region.


Other achievements

Yvonne Mhango is a co-author of the book , about Africa's economic revolution.


See also

*
List of banks in South Africa This is a list of commercial banks and other credit institutions in South Africa, as updated late 2024 by the Reserve Bank of South Africa. List of commercial banks Domestic banks * Absa Bank Ltd, part of Absa Group * African Bank Limited * ...


References


External links


Website of Renaissance Capital (Russian Company)

Nigeria's GDP: Bigger but slower by Yvonne Mhango on 15 July 2014
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mhango, Yvonne Living people 1979 births Malawian businesspeople Malawian women in business University of Cape Town alumni 21st-century Malawian economists Malawian economists Women economists 21st-century Malawian women Alumni of Saint Andrews International High School