Director, Board of Directors
Douglas is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi. He holds a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Manchester, a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Malawi (The Polytechnic), and also holds the Mini Certificate in Risk Management from the Real World Risk Institute — a programme run by the highly regarded scholar, options trader, and risk engineer Nicholas Nassim Taleb — as well as the Chartered Retail Banker (Honorary) certificate and Credit Academy Certificate from Financial Times & Moody's.
Douglas brings three decades of leadership and business experience, with deep and varied exposure at Business Head, Chief Executive, and Board levels across multiple businesses, including commercial banking, leasing and asset finance, and accounting and finance within the Standard Bank Group; low-income and impact financial services, data analytics, agency banking, and digital financial services at Pinnacle Financial Services Limited and FINCA Zambia; and audit at Coopers & Lybrand.