He has published a number of award-winning papers[citation needed] in the area of finance and economics as well as a number of books including,Mathematical Finance:Option and Asset Pricing;[8]South African Dictionary of Finance (editor);[9]Financial Systems and Monetary Policy in Africa;[10]Development Dynamics:Theories and Lessons from Zimbabwe;[11] and Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa (with Eliphas Ndou).[12]
Ncube was the Chief Economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank (AfDB).[13] As Chief Economist,he oversaw the Economics Complex,which is focused on the process of knowledge management within the Bank and with its partners,and general strategic economic research within the Bank. In this regard,he supervised the Development Research Department,Statistics Department and African Development Institute. As a vice president,Professor Mthuli Ncube was a member of the senior management team of the Bank and contributed to its general strategic direction.[5]
Other work
Ncube was also a regulator and a board member of the South African Financial Services Board (FSB),which regulates non-bank financial institutions in South Africa,founding chairman of Barbican and Selwyn Capital and worked for Investec Asset Management as a Portfolio Manager and Head of Asset Allocation Strategy.[13]
Ncube was appointed Finance Minister of Zimbabwe on Friday 7 September 2018 under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.[2][5] In 2019,he presided over the conversion from foreign currency to a new Zimbabwean currency,and the resultant return of hyper-inflation.[16][17][18] Ncube suspended publishing inflation data after June 2019,[17] and in October 2019 he indicated inflation figures for Zimbabwe would again be released in February 2020.[16]
Personal life
Ncube is married and has four children or more.[14]
Notes and references
↑ The journal Africa Confidential lists his birth date as 30 November 1964 "Mthuli Ncube". Blackwell Publishing. Retrieved 5 March 2020.; although the entry at "Ncube, Mthuli, 1963-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 28 September 2014. uses 1963.
↑ Ncube, Mthuli (2010). Mathematical Finance: Option and Asset Pricing. Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa: Heinemann. ISBN978-0-7962-3386-8., no reviews found.
↑ Wuite, Rudy (2009). Ncube, Mthuli (ed.). South African Dictionary of Finance. Northcliff, South Africa: Rollerbird Press. ISBN978-1-920334-02-4.
↑ Ncube, Mthuli (2008). Financial Systems and Monetary Policy in Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: African Economic Research Consortium. ISBN978-9966-778-30-7., no reviews found.
↑ Ncube, Mthuli (1991). Development Dynamics: Theories and Lessons from Zimbabwe. Aldershot, Haunts, England: Avebury. ISBN978-1-85628-087-7., no reviews found.
↑ Ncube, Mthuli; Ndou, Eliphas (2013). Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN978-1-137-33414-5.
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