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Edgar Tembo

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Edgar Tembo

Deputy Minister of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism

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  • Deputy Minister of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism
In office since
January 2026

Edgar Tembo is Malawi’s Deputy Minister of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism, appointed on 5 January 2026. He is not a Member of Parliament. He sits on the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) National Governing Council.

He serves under Minister Simon Itaye, who took over the ministry at the end of January 2026.

In June 2026, at the National Product Magazine mid-year awards in Lilongwe, he said Malawian manufacturers and service providers could now compete on international markets and that the country was moving towards an export-led economy.