{"id":22,"date":"2025-11-11T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:16:43","slug":"chief-executive-officer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/chief-executive-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"bde-section-22-100 bde-section\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section-container\"><div class=\"bde-columns-22-101 bde-columns\"><div class=\"bde-column-22-102 bde-column\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"oxy-container-225-101 oxy-container menu-header\"><h5 class=\"bde-heading-225-102 bde-heading\">\nAbout us\n<\/h5><\/div>\n<div class=\"bde-wp-menu-22-104 bde-wp-menu\">\n\n\n      \n        \n    <nav class=\"breakdance-menu breakdance-menu--collapse breakdance-menu--vertical   \">\n    <button class=\"breakdance-menu-toggle breakdance-menu-toggle--squeeze\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Menu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"menu-104\">\n                  <span class=\"breakdance-menu-toggle-icon\">\n            <span class=\"breakdance-menu-toggle-lines\"><\/span>\n          <\/span>\n            <\/button>\n    \n  <ul class=\"breakdance-menu-list\" id=\"menu-104\">\n              \n  \n    <li id=\"menu-item-223\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-223 breakdance-menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/who-we-are\/\" class=\"breakdance-menu-link\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-259\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-259 breakdance-menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/mission-vision-values\/\" class=\"breakdance-menu-link\">Mission, Vision &amp; Values<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-220\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-220 breakdance-menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/board-of-commissioners\/\" class=\"breakdance-menu-link\">Board of Commissioners<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-219\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-219 breakdance-menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/chief-executive-officer\/\" class=\"breakdance-menu-link\">Chief Executive Officer<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-221\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-221 breakdance-menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/our-management\/\" class=\"breakdance-menu-link\">Our Management<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-222\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-222 breakdance-menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/our-structure\/\" class=\"breakdance-menu-link\">Our Structure<\/a><\/li>\n\n  <\/ul>\n  <\/nav>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"bde-column-22-103 bde-column\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"bde-heading-22-108 bde-heading\">\nDirector and Chief Executive Officer\n<\/h3><div class=\"bde-fancy-divider-22-109 bde-fancy-divider\">\n\n\n<div class=\"bde-fancy-divider__wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"bde-fancy-divider__separator   \">\n  \t  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"oxy-image-22-110 oxy-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dr-Willard-Mwemba-2-480x606-1-238x300.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\"><h4 class=\"bde-heading-22-112 bde-heading\">\nDr Willard Mwemba\n<\/h4><div class=\"oxy-text-22-113 oxy-text\">\n9 November 2021 \u2013 Present<br><br>\n<\/div><div class=\"oxy-text-22-114 oxy-text paragraph\">\nDr Willard Mwemba has been with the COMESA Competition Commission since January 2013 being its first Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Department until his appointment as the Acting Director and Chief Executive Officer on 1 February 2021. Dr Mwemba was appointed as the Director and Chief Executive Officer by the COMESA Council of Ministers on 9 November 2021. Prior to joining the Commission, Dr Mwemba was the Director of Mergers and Monopolies at the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Zambia.<br><br>Dr Mwemba has been instrumental in the enforcement of competition and consumer laws both at the national and regional levels. At the national level, he has assisted a number of national competition authorities in developing and operationalising their mergers and restrictive business practices divisions. At the regional level, he has been instrumental in implementing and reforming the COMESA Competition Law regime.  He has written extensively on Competition Law and is widely consulted on the subject at the global level.<br><br>Dr Mwemba holds several qualifications among them Bachelor\u2019s degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Zambia. He also holds a Master\u2019s degree in Competition Law from Kings College London. He further holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town specializing in Competition Law.\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About us Overview Mission, Vision &amp; Values Board of Commissioners Chief Executive Officer Our Management Our Structure Director and Chief Executive Officer Dr Willard Mwemba 9 November 2021 \u2013 Present Dr Willard Mwemba has been with the COMESA Competition Commission since January 2013 being its first Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Department until his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oxygen_hide_in_design_set":false,"_oxygen_tags":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc.adresstaging.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}