Mthuli Ncube

Mthuli Ncube (born 30 November 1964), is the Finance Minister in the Zimbabwe cabinet appointed by president Emmerson Mnangagwa and past chief economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Finance from Cambridge University. On 7 September 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Zimbabwe's new cabinet where he named Professor Mthuli Ncube as the Finance Minister.

In the 2023 Zimbabwean general election, Ncube lost the newly created seat of Cowdray Park to Pasho Raphael Sibanda from the Citizens Coalition for Change.

Academic career Before joining the bank, he was dean and professor of finance at Wits Business School and then dean of the faculty of Commerce, Law and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) as well as a lecturer in finance at the London School of Economics.

He has published a number of award-winning papers in the area of finance and economics as well as a number of books including, Mathematical Finance: Option and Asset Pricing; South African Dictionary of Finance (editor); Financial Systems and Monetary Policy in Africa; Development Dynamics: Theories and Lessons from Zimbabwe; and Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa (with Eliphas Ndou).

Ncube is currently a visiting professor at the University of Oxford.

Work at the African Development Bank Ncube was the Chief Economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). chairman of the Global Agenda Council on "Poverty and Economic Development" (World Economic Forum) and a governor of the African Capacity Building Foundation.

Finance Minister Ncube was appointed Finance Minister of Zimbabwe on Friday 7 September 2018 under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government. Ncube suspended publishing inflation data after June 2019, and in October 2019 he indicated inflation figures for Zimbabwe would again be released in February 2020.

Personal life Ncube is married and has four children or more.

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