Grieve Chelwa is a Zambian economist,academic,and is Chair of the Social Sciences Department,Africa Institute at Global Studies University,Sharjah.[1][2] He is a member of the Vatican Commission on the Debt and Development Crisis in the Global South.[3] Chelwa was Director of Research at the Institute on Race,Power and Political Economy at the New School in New York where he worked with the economist Darrick Hamilton.[4] He previously was a contributing editor,AIAC.[5] He is a non-resident senior fellow at Tricontinental:Institute for Social Research.[6]
Chelwa was born in Lusaka. As a young student,he met Rhode Scholar and Zambian lawyer,Lucy Sichone in 1998,receiving a certificate from her during a prize-giving ceremony.[7]
At the University of Zambia,Chelwa earned a bachelor's degree. He moved to South Africa to continue with his education at University of Cape Town.[1][8] His doctorate thesis is titled "The Economics of tobacco control in some African countries".
Career
As a researcher and academic,Chelwa is a policy contributor to the discourse on Africa's economic and geo-political issues.[9][10]
Chelwa lectured at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business.[1] He was the inaugural Post-Doctoral fellow at the Center for African Studies,Harvard University.[11]
Prior to his move into the academia,Chelwa worked as a management associate with Citibank in Johannesburg.[11]
Chelwa served as the Director of Research at the Institute on Race,Power,and Political Economy at the New School.[4]
Chelwa co-authored a report which called on the Zambian Government to put a hold on an IMF loan which would plunge the country into more unsustainable debts.[13]
As an alternative to IMF loans,Chelwa has argued that Zambia takes advantage of fresh bonds which should cost less in the international markets under a government viewed by foreign investors as trustworthy.[14]
Honors
Chelwa was recognized in a list of 10 African scholars to watch in 2025 by the Africa Report.[15]
Publications
His numerous writings and publications revolves around political economy addressing the decolonization of economics and his opinions have appeared in media outlets such as The New York Times,Bloomberg News and The Washington Post.
A selection of his publications follows:
G Chelwa.(2020). Thandika Mkandawire:A 'Young'Economist's Appreciation African Studies.
G Chelwa. (2021). Does Economics Have an Africa Problem? Economy and Society.
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