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Simon Itaye
Minister of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism
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- Minister of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism
- In office since
- 30 January 2026
Simon Itaye is Malawi’s Minister of Industrialisation, Business, Trade and Tourism, appointed on 30 January 2026. He replaced George Partridge, who left the Cabinet to become Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi. He is not a Member of Parliament: he came into government from the private sector.
He has more than 35 years of private sector experience. He started in auditing, including at Deloitte Malawi, then spent twenty years, from 1998 to 2018, as Managing Director of Nampak Malawi, one of the country’s largest manufacturers, which makes paper packaging. After retiring from Nampak he set up Gesi Consultancy Services in Blantyre, advising on financial management, investment and strategy.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in accountancy, is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), and has an MBA in strategic management from the University of Malawi and Thames Valley University in the United Kingdom.
