Chimunthu Banda
{{short description|Malawian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Henry Chimunthu-Banda
|honorific-suffix = MP
|image = H.F. Chimunthu Banda (cropped).jpg
|caption = Banda in 2011
|office = Speaker of the National Assembly of Malawi
|president = Bingu wa Mutharika
Joyce Banda
|term_start = 15 June 2009
|term_end = May 2014
|office1 = Member of Parliament
|constituency1 = Nkhotakota North
|term_start1 = 19 May 1999
|office2 = Minister of Mines, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs
|president2 = Bingu wa Mutharika
|birth_date = 30 September 1962
|birth_place = Chipembere Village, Nkhotakota District, Nyasaland
(now Malawi)
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Democratic Progressive Party
}}
Henry Chimunthu Banda is a Malawian politician who was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Malawi from May 2009 to May 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationmw.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=663:henry-chimunthu-banda&catid=170:eds-letter&Itemid=365|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506024947/http://www.nationmw.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=663:henry-chimunthu-banda&catid=170:eds-letter&Itemid=365|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 6, 2014|title=I Recommend WPX Hosting}} He was elected in 2009 as the Chair of the 19 member Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Africa region.http://www.bnltimes.com/national/42-all/2061-mw-handing-cpa-chair-to-seychelles.html{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
He also served for a time as Minister of Energy and Minister of Mining, Youth Sports and Culture.
Early life and education
Banda is from Chipembere village in Nkhotakota District, Central Malawi. He received a Diploma in Education obtained from the University of Malawi in 1984. Subsequently, he earned a Diploma in Education Management which he acquired from Brandon University. He joined the Ministry of Education as a Diploma teacher in 1985 and was posted to Euthini Secondary School in Northern Malawi until May 1989. He was posted to his home district of Nkhotakota where he rose to become headteacher of the school. In 1993-1995, he became the Regional Publications Officer for the National Teachers Union of Malawi.
Political career
At the 1999 general elections, Hon C Banda was elected as Member of Parliament for the Nkhotakota North Constituency, and from August 1999 to September 2001, he was Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment. From January 2000 to September 2001, he was Commissioner in the Parliamentary Service Commission and subsequently Minister of Mines, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs. In June 2004 he was appointed as the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture.[http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=50232 "New, leaner cabinet of "national unity""], IRIN, 14 June 2004. He also served as Minister of Energy and Mining and helped to secure the Paladin Energy mining deal with Goodall Gondwe.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecc-platform.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1075:malawi-uranium-mining-sparks-controversy&catid=90:minerals-a-mining-news&Itemid=176|title = Climate Diplomacy | Climate-Diplomacy}} He also served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/webcast/ga/58/statements/malaeng030930.htm|title = Malawi}}
Personal life
Chimunthu-Banda is married and has three children with whom he and his wife reside with in Lilongwe.{{cite web |url=http://www.silobreaker.com/biography-for-henry-chimunthu-banda-5_2260392001105035432_4 |title=Biography for Henry Chimunthu Banda - Silobreaker |website=www.silobreaker.com |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202210336/http://www.silobreaker.com/biography-for-henry-chimunthu-banda-5_2260392001105035432_4 |archive-date=2 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}
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|title=Speaker of the National Assembly of Malawi
|before=Louis Chimango
|after=Richard Msowoya
|years=2009–2014}}
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Category:People from Nkhotakota District
Category:Democratic Progressive Party (Malawi) politicians
Category:Government ministers of Malawi
Category:Members of the National Assembly (Malawi)