Killion Munyama
Killion Munzele Munyama was born 10th July 1961. He is a Zambian-born Polish economist, academic lecturer, politician and a delegate to the Polish parliament.
Biography
Killion Munyama was born in Monze, Zambia. Later his family moved to Mumbwa and then to Mkushi where Munyama grew up on a farm. He came to Poland on a scholarship in 1981 to study International Finance. Munyama has stated that initially he planned on returning to Zambia after graduation, as he saw no opportunities for black people in Universities. However, after the fall of communism in Poland, he changed his mind as he saw an opportunity for improvement in Poland
Education
He graduated from the Poznań University of Economics in 1987. After graduation, he worked for the Zambian government and then returned to Poland in 1994. He obtained his PhD from the Poznań University of Economics in 1994, with a dissertation "IMF Conditionality and the Problem of Structural Adjustment in the Zambian Economy". In 2012 he wrote "Economic Growth and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries: The Case of IMF Programmes in Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia". Munyama's fields of specialisation are banking and international finance. He has been working at the Poznań University of Economics since obtaining his doctorate and has also taught at the Bydgoszcz Higher School of Economics.
Political Career
In the 2002 elections, Munyama was elected as a delegate to the local council of Grodzisk Wielkopolski County. In 2006 he joined the Civic Platform centre-right party and was a councillor for the regional parliament of Wielkopolska. In the 2011 elections, he was elected to the Polish Parliament. As a Parliament deputy, he has worked on issues of government finance and foreign policy. Along with John Godson, he is one of the two parliamentarians in the Polish Parliament of African descent.
