Dr J. T Chipika is a is a well-renowned economist and researcher. She is one of the deputy governors of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and a former chairperson of the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC).
A former technical advisor in the Finance Ministry, Dr Chipika holds Bachelor of Science Honours; Master of Science; and Doctor of Philosophy in Economics degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. She also had a stint as an economics lecturer at the university from 1985 and 1998.
From 1999 to 2001, she was the International Labour Organisation and United Nations Development Programme national coordinator. She held the same post in the Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Ministry’s Jobs for Africa Programme.
Dr Chipika was also a senior national economist and programme manager for the UNDP from 2001 to 2005.
In 2016, she was the lead consultant in the production of the Zimbabwe Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Dr Chipika has published 27 books and more than 40 research papers in economics, broad-based economic empowerment, poverty, Millennium Development Goals and pro-poor policy making, among other areas. She was a member of the RBZ Monetary Policy Committee from 2013 to 2015.