Gladys Ganda

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Gladys Ganda
Nationality Malawian
Occupationpolitician
Employer(s)National Bank of Malawi, NOCMA

Gladys Ganda is a Malawian politician who was appointed as a Presidential advisor. She is a member of parliamentarian for Nsanje Lalanje in Malawi and the Democratic Progressive Party. She was elected to chair parliament's Budget and Finance Committee in 2020.

Life

Ganda attended the Chancellor College of the University of Malawi which is in Zomba and graduated with a BSc. She later went to Cape Town in South Africa to study for her MBA. She had a career inside the Bank of Malawi that lasted twenty years. [1]

Ganda was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate in 2017. She stood again and in 2019 she became the member of parliament for the Nsanje Lalanje constituency. [1] Until then she was deputy CEO of NOCMA (the National Oil Company of Malawi.) [1]

In 2020, Sosten Gwengwe resigned as chair of parliament's Budget and Finance Committee as that committee was intended to be led by a person whose party is not in government. [2] Ganda was elected to the chair by the committee. She is only the second woman to lead this committee which is created by the constitution. The Budget and Finance Committee has a wide range of oversight into the nation's budgets, spending and government borrowing and it advices the respective ministry. [1]

In August 2024 she became the DPP's elecyed Director of Elections. [3] In September 2024 she had to be supported by her party after she apologised for comments she had made. She was demoted to be a Presidential advisor after an event in Sorjin where she praised the wrong person. She was fired after less than four weeks as the Director of Elections. Firing an elected politician raised some criticism. [4] She made a full and public apology to the DPP, the President and the electorate. [5] [6]

She is a member the Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus which is an association of the women in parliament. In 2019 just 20% of the parliament were women. [7]

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  2. ↑ "MP Ganda elected chair of Malawi Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi". www.nyasatimes.com. 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  3. ↑ "DPP national executive committee complete". Capital Radio Malawi. 2024-08-19. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  4. ↑ News, Times (2024-09-11). "DPP fires Gladys Ganda after 23 days". The Times Group. Retrieved 2025-01-08.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. ↑ Ngwira, Robert (2024-09-14). "MP Gladys Ganda apologies to Mutharika for dying with Chakwera" . Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  6. ↑ "DPP 'forgives' Gladys Ganda, but insists she remains demoted from her elected position - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi". www.nyasatimes.com. 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  7. ↑ "PWC Home – PWC Malawi" . Retrieved 2025-01-08.
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