Martin Kalungu-Banda

Martin Kalungu-Banda serves as Core Faculty Member of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, the Presencing Institute, the Commonwealth Business School, and the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Programme. He trains and coaches business, government, and civil society leaders in different parts of the world. Since February 2010, Martin has been designing and facilitating the WWF-led process through which the tuna industry is seeking to make itself more sustainable. Through the Governance Initiative of Tony Blair (former UK Prime Minister), Martin coaches a number of Presidential Chiefs of Staff on the African continent.

Martin served as Global Leadership Advisor for Oxfam GB in Oxford, UK. Between March 2005 and May 2008, he served as Special Adviser and Coach to the President of Zambia, helping to establish the role of Chief of Staff in the presidency. Martin also worked as Corporate Affairs Manager and Regional Social Performance Manager for BP-Africa. Prior, he designed, introduced and taught Business Ethics and Philosophy of Good Governance at the University of Zambia.

Martin is the author of the bestseller Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela (2006) that has sold more than 30,000 copies and been translated into six languages and It’s How we end that Matters: leadership lessons from an African President (2009).

Martin holds a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the University of Warwick, UK; a double major bachelor’s degree in Development Studies and Philosophy from the University of Zambia and a diploma in Philosophy and Anthropology from the Zambia National Seminary. He also holds professional qualifications in Leadership and Organisation Development from the National Training Laboratories (NTL) and Brokering Cross-sector Partnerships from the United Nations Staff College (Turin).