Webby Banda
Senior Researcher Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) @
Bio
Webby Banda is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) currently heading the extractives desk. Added to this he is also a Lecturer in the School of Mines in the Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Zambia (UNZA). He holds a Bachelor of Mineral Sciences (B.Min.Sc) (Mining Engineering) and a Master of Mineral Sciences (M.Min.Sc) (Mineral Economics). He has over 6 years of mining experience spread across mining operations, consultancy, and academia. He is a registered professional engineer and a member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ). He has published and presented several technical papers locally and internationally. His research interests include artisanal and small-scale mining, mineral taxation, mine financial valuation, fleet optimisation, drilling and blasting, mining method selection and design, mine investment analysis, and application of multiple criteria decision making in mining.