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    Hakainde Hichilema is the leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), Zambia's major opposition political party. He has a successful career as a self-made businessman, becoming one of Zambia's largest cattle ranchers and meat suppliers. Hichilema also has extensive business experience, holding top positions with international firms in Zambia. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Zambia and an MBA from the UK. Hichilema became the UPND president in 2006 and advocates for economic reforms and improvements to education in Zambia.

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    Hakainde Hichilema is the leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), Zambia's major opposition political party. He has a successful career as a self-made businessman, becoming one of Zambia's largest cattle ranchers and meat suppliers. Hichilema also has extensive business experience, holding top positions with international firms in Zambia. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Zambia and an MBA from the UK. Hichilema became the UPND president in 2006 and advocates for economic reforms and improvements to education in Zambia.

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    Hakainde Hichilema is the leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), Zambia's major opposition political party. He has a successful career as a self-made businessman, becoming one of Zambia's largest cattle ranchers and meat suppliers. Hichilema also has extensive business experience, holding top positions with international firms in Zambia. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Zambia and an MBA from the UK. Hichilema became the UPND president in 2006 and advocates for economic reforms and improvements to education in Zambia.

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    UPND President Hakainde Hichilema

    Hakainde Hichilema, a self-made millionaire businessman, is the youthful and


    energetic leader of the major opposition political party in Zambia the United
    Party for National Development (UPND).

    Hichilema was born on June 4 1962 in the southern district of Monze. After
    attending school locally he was admitted to the University of Zambia on a
    government bursary where he studied and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of
    Arts (BA) in Economics and Business Administration. He later obtained an MBA
    degree in Finance and Business Strategy from the University of Birmingham, UK.

    Since then, Hichilema, affectionately know as HH, has carved out an impressive
    track record in business, both locally and internationally. A large commercial
    famer, Hichilema is now the second biggest cattle rancher in Zambia with nearly
    100,000 herds of cattle to his name on four ranches, and is one of the biggest
    suppliers of meat to the local Zambian market, as well as one of Zambia’s biggest
    exporter of hard-currency-earning beef products. He also holds substantial
    investments in Zambia’s tourism sector.

    Following his university education Hichilema ascended to top positions in


    Zambia’s corporate world, landing such prestigious jobs as CEO of Coopers and
    Lybrand at the tender age of 32 years old, from 1994 to 1998, and later as CEO of
    Cooper’s successor, Grant Thornton, from 1998 to 2006. He was the biggest local
    shareholder in two foreign-owned companies; including Barclays Bank Zambia
    Plc. Hichilema is also a trained Business Negotiator, a qualified Change
    Management Practitioner and is a member of the Zambia Institute of Directors.

    HH won the presidency of the UPND in 2006 following the death of its leader,
    Anderson Mazoka, his business mentor, tribesman and close friend. Since then
    ruling party politicians have, unsuccessfully, poured their energy into trying to
    keep him tied up in legal cases which he has refused to let stand in his way.

    In the recent January 2015 president by-election Hichilema came second in the
    race to the candidate of the incumbent PF, falling short by just 27,000 votes
    (1%). He has run his campaigns on a strong economic platform, arguing that
    Zambia needs a leader who understands business and can turn around the
    economy in order to unlock developmental benefits in health, education and
    elsewhere. He is passionate about delivering improvements in Zambia’s
    education system so that every young Zambian has that same opportunity he had
    to receive government support that can empower youths to launch a successful
    career in which they can earn a decent wage, provide for their family and help
    grow the Zambian economy.

    Finally, Hichilema is not just a politician and a businessman, he is also a


    philanthropist, donating to community activities and projects such as clinics,
    schools, sinking boreholes and building dams to enhance agriculture activities.
    He is married to Mutinta and together they have three children.

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