Mpangi Kwenge

Mpangi Kwenge is currently the Chief of Party for Freedom House Southern Africa. Mpangi has an MA, with Honours in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent in Brussels.  Her research interests include exploring the nexus between forced migration dynamics and conflict, nationalism and ethnic diversity. She has worked with the Dag Hammarskjold Institute for Peace Studies at the Copperbelt University in Zambia as a Special Research Fellow where she conducted research on ethnic power relations in Zambia (1964-2015) and taught courses on Conflict prevention, Humanitarian assistance and refugees and Regional Integration. Mpangi has extensive professional experience working on democracy and good governance projects in the region, she has previously worked for the Institute for Democracy in Africa (IDASA) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Kenya.