Bio
Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka is a leader, an engineer, IT/Business Interface Professional, expert & trainer in
public speaking and a family man.
Over the last ten years, Dr Mtumbuka has chaired, presided over or led more than ten organisations of
diverse depths, breadths, nature and geographies. Currently, he works part-time as Executive Director of
MIND - an organisation of Diaspora Malawians in the United Kingdom aimed at organising their
volunteering efforts. He is also Chairman of ConnectIT, a network of approximately 100 IT Professionals in
Europe in a Global Oil Giant. Mtumbuka is also Area Governor of Toastmasters (network of Public Speaking
Clubs) for North of Scotland.
Dr Mtumbuka has six years of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) experience. He spent three
years researching into future high-speed mobile wireless communications techniques and systems which
resulted in more than ten refereed technical publications and five presentations. In the last three years, he
has focused on IT/Business interface in one of the biggest Global Oil giants, Shell, where he currently
works as Portfolio Analyst, responsible for Real Time IT operations and projects covering numerous
onshore and offshore Oil and Gas platforms in UK and Ireland. He spent his first two years in Shell as an IT
Service Delivery Coordinator, carrying out projects covering eight European countries.
Matthews was born in 1978, son of two primary teachers who worked in remote areas of Malawi for a long
time before relocating to an outskirt of Mzuzu - a small city in Malawi, Southern Africa. His parents instilled in
him a spirit of ambition, hard-work and discipline which took him all the way to the University of Oxford in
England where he obtained his PhD in Engineering Science as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to this, Matthews
graduated from The Malawi Polytechnic, a Constituent College of the University of Malawi in Electrical
Engineering (with Distinction) in 2002. Matthews was greatly involved in student politics and he
successfully led university students in fighting the Government against a 3,000% fee hike and was named
by the then Vice Chancellor, Professor David Rubadiri as "the best student union president of his time
and generation". He brought with him student politics to Oxford where he was elected President of the
Oxford University Africa Society and organised numerous high-profile events including hosting an African
Head of State for a Public Lecture, the Zimbabwe Ambassador to UK for debate on Zimbabwe Land Crisis
and he re-launched the annual Oxford African Cultural Fair.
Matthews' early ambition was to become a Catholic Priest, admiring his uncle Fr. Dr. Martin Mtumbuka
(Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Catholic University of Malawi CUNIMA). He enrolled at St. Patrick's seminary
in 1992 where he met an Irish Missionary who completely transformed Matthews from a timid rural-Malawi
bred boy into a figure that is role model to many young Malawians. Prof. Fr. John Ryan, who is now
Professor of Maths at Mzuzu University, coached and motivated Matthews to emerge number one in Science
and number two in Maths in Malawi in the mid 1990's.
In his spare time, Dr. Mtumbuka enjoys gym, volleyball, charity work, analysing current affairs and public
speaking,. In 2007 he competed in an Impromptu Speaking contest and went all the way to the Grand
Finals where he emerged Third Best Impromptu Public Speaker in UK & Ireland.
Dr. Mtumbuka and his wife, Nancy, reside in Aberdeen, Scotland. They have a one year old son Thumbiko
who 'hopes' to fulfil his dad's first ambition to become a Catholic priest! So far so good :)
public speaking and a family man.
Over the last ten years, Dr Mtumbuka has chaired, presided over or led more than ten organisations of
diverse depths, breadths, nature and geographies. Currently, he works part-time as Executive Director of
MIND - an organisation of Diaspora Malawians in the United Kingdom aimed at organising their
volunteering efforts. He is also Chairman of ConnectIT, a network of approximately 100 IT Professionals in
Europe in a Global Oil Giant. Mtumbuka is also Area Governor of Toastmasters (network of Public Speaking
Clubs) for North of Scotland.
Dr Mtumbuka has six years of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) experience. He spent three
years researching into future high-speed mobile wireless communications techniques and systems which
resulted in more than ten refereed technical publications and five presentations. In the last three years, he
has focused on IT/Business interface in one of the biggest Global Oil giants, Shell, where he currently
works as Portfolio Analyst, responsible for Real Time IT operations and projects covering numerous
onshore and offshore Oil and Gas platforms in UK and Ireland. He spent his first two years in Shell as an IT
Service Delivery Coordinator, carrying out projects covering eight European countries.
Matthews was born in 1978, son of two primary teachers who worked in remote areas of Malawi for a long
time before relocating to an outskirt of Mzuzu - a small city in Malawi, Southern Africa. His parents instilled in
him a spirit of ambition, hard-work and discipline which took him all the way to the University of Oxford in
England where he obtained his PhD in Engineering Science as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to this, Matthews
graduated from The Malawi Polytechnic, a Constituent College of the University of Malawi in Electrical
Engineering (with Distinction) in 2002. Matthews was greatly involved in student politics and he
successfully led university students in fighting the Government against a 3,000% fee hike and was named
by the then Vice Chancellor, Professor David Rubadiri as "the best student union president of his time
and generation". He brought with him student politics to Oxford where he was elected President of the
Oxford University Africa Society and organised numerous high-profile events including hosting an African
Head of State for a Public Lecture, the Zimbabwe Ambassador to UK for debate on Zimbabwe Land Crisis
and he re-launched the annual Oxford African Cultural Fair.
Matthews' early ambition was to become a Catholic Priest, admiring his uncle Fr. Dr. Martin Mtumbuka
(Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Catholic University of Malawi CUNIMA). He enrolled at St. Patrick's seminary
in 1992 where he met an Irish Missionary who completely transformed Matthews from a timid rural-Malawi
bred boy into a figure that is role model to many young Malawians. Prof. Fr. John Ryan, who is now
Professor of Maths at Mzuzu University, coached and motivated Matthews to emerge number one in Science
and number two in Maths in Malawi in the mid 1990's.
In his spare time, Dr. Mtumbuka enjoys gym, volleyball, charity work, analysing current affairs and public
speaking,. In 2007 he competed in an Impromptu Speaking contest and went all the way to the Grand
Finals where he emerged Third Best Impromptu Public Speaker in UK & Ireland.
Dr. Mtumbuka and his wife, Nancy, reside in Aberdeen, Scotland. They have a one year old son Thumbiko
who 'hopes' to fulfil his dad's first ambition to become a Catholic priest! So far so good :)
Dr Matthews Mtumbuka
At Brent Celebration: Nancy &
Matthews Mtumbuka.
Matthews Mtumbuka.
Matthews, Thumbiko and
Nancy Mtumbuka
Nancy Mtumbuka
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