{"id":8724,"date":"2020-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2020-06-25T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T08:28:29","slug":"thandika-mkandawire-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=8724","title":{"rendered":"Thandika Mkandawire, economist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thandika Mkandawire \u2011 a Malawian economist and public intellectual who was a Chair of African Development and professor of African Development at the London School of Economics – died from Covid-19 on 27 March 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He is a widely published scholar on the social sciences in Africa. His research focused in development theory and economic and social policy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He was born in Malawi, studied at Zomba Catholic Secondary School, and then moved abroad for university.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Mkandawire received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Economics at Ohio State University. Mkandawire worked as a professor at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe. He later served as a Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and Director of the<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa CODESRIA. He was on the board of the Social Science Research Council.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Thandika Mkandawire was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Helsinki, University of Ghana and York University.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He was Chair and Professor of African Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Olof Palme Professor for Peace with the Swedish Institute for Future Studies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Thandika Mkandawire died in Stockholm, Sweden, on 27 March 2020, aged 79, following a stroke in January the same year.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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