Nampaka Nkumbula is a Senior Policy Associate for the IPA Zambia Country Office. Her role involves sharing and promoting the use of existing evidence to external stakeholders to better inform policy and programming decisions made with government and other external stakeholders. This also includes maintaining these relationships and supporting business development opportunities. Previously, Nampaka worked at Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute and Credit Suisse. Nampaka holds an MA in Economics and BA in Economics with Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Zambia.