Chrissie Mughogho

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Dr. Chrissie Chawanje-Mughogho is a Malawian former Ambassador of Malawi to India, Bangladesh, Angola, and Zambia [1] She is a professor by training who rose up the education administration ranks at the University of Malawi. There she served as the first female dean of the faculty of Sciences at the University of Malawi.

Mughogho was born in Chidzinja village in the Tyolo, in the southern region of Malawi. [2] She is mother to musician David Kalilani. [3]

Mughoho was a Fulbright Scholar who graduated from Virginia Polytechinic and State University (Virginia Tech) in 1998 with a PhD in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise. [4] She then moved back to Malawi where she worked in academia at the University of Malawi. She soon rose up the ranks becoming the first dean of applied sciences who was a woman at the university. She also worked as the Chairperson of the Forum for African Women Educationalists in Malawi. She worked there until she took up a diplomatic post in 2005 as Malawi's ambassador to Zambia who was also accredited to Angola. [5] In 2010, she became the Malawi High Commissioner to India. In 2012 she became Malawi’s ambassador to Bangladesh.She returned to Malawi in 2012 and returned to academia. [6]

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  1. ↑ Charlotte Lytton (30 August 2013). "'I knew I had to change the mindset that ambassadors should be men' Global Development Professionals Network". Guardian Professional. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  2. ↑ AMBASSADOR CHRISSIE CHAWANJE-MUGHOGHO CONNECTS MALAWI AND INDIA, VT NetLetter, December 2011, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia Archived February 1, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Arise". Archived from the original on May 28, 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  4. ↑ "Alumni: Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
  5. ↑ "Diplomat urges politicians to focus on issues". The Post Newspapers Zambia. 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2014-02-22.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Malawi recalls ambassadors Bowler, Mughogho". Malawi Nyasa Times. 2012-04-24. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-22.

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