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Bright Msaka
Minister of Education, Science and Technology
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- Minister of Education, Science and Technology
- In office since
- October 2025
Bright Msaka is Malawi’s Minister of Education, Science and Technology, appointed in October 2025. He is a lawyer with the rank of Senior Counsel (SC). He is not a Member of Parliament: he stood again in Machinga Likwenu in 2025 and lost.
He was born on 4 October 1959. From 2000 to 2003 he was Malawi’s ambassador covering Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Portugal.
In Peter Mutharika’s first government he was Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development from June 2014, then Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining from April 2015 to 2017. He won Machinga Likwenu for the DPP in 2019 and was Minister of Justice from June 2019 to June 2020.
Back in the Cabinet in 2025, he announced free secondary education for all.
