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	Trustees

Denis Kadima Chairperson of the board of trustees of the Southern Africa Trust. He is currently the executive director of the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA). Originating from the Democratic Republic of Congo and having worked in the development sphere from South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho, he has extensive regional and continental experience in governance issues. He is also a director of the Southern Africa Regional Poverty Network.

Joseph Komakoma is a Catholic priest and currently serves as the secretary general of the Zambia Bishops’ Conference. He worked for many years in the popular promotion of economic justice, peace, and development as a civil society leader in Zambia and the southern African region and is a highly regarded public commentator in Zambia.

Perks Ligoya currently serves as economic advisor to the minister of finance in Malawi. He is a macroeconomist and has worked for the Malawian central bank, the IMF and the budget and finance committee of the Malawian parliament. He championed the cause of poverty reduction in Malawi through the civil society organisations which he led and advised, and was president of the Economics Association of Malawi.

Reginald Matchaba-Hove chairs the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and the Zimbabwe Election Support Network and is a medical practitioner and teacher of public health at the University of Zimbabwe. He has been involved in the development of many human rights and development initiatives and is a prominent civil society leader in Zimbabwe and the southern African region.

Alice Mogwe is the founder director of Ditshwanelo, the Botswana centre for human rights. With a legal background, she has served as a consultant to several international development agencies including UNICEF and has been active in the field of gender and development. Amongst the foremost civil society leaders in Botswana, she is a recipient of several international awards recognising her work as a woman leader and promoter of human rights.

Shirley Moulder serves as a non-executive director of a number of social development organisations in southern Africa, having been involved in human rights and development work for more than thirty years. Based in South Africa, her professional experience includes engagement with governments, the private sector and international aid agencies as well as serving on a number of commissions for the Anglican Church in Southern African and the global Anglican Communion.

Prakash Ratilal has played an active role in facilitating relations between the civil society, government, business, and banking communities and advises governments and civil society organisations on development strategies. He is a former governor of Mozambique’s reserve bank and was an acting minister of finance in the Mozambique government. He was a member of the UN Panel of Eminent Persons for Relations with Civil Society.