Elias Chipimo Jr

Elias Chipimo Jr., born in September 1965, is a Zambian politician and the president of the National Restoration Party. He previously worked as a corporate lawyer and human rights activist.

Personal History

Chipimo is the third boy in a family of seven. He grew up in Lusaka, but also lived in the United Kingdom, where his father served as a diplomat in the late 1960s. Chipimo’s father (and namesake) made a speech to the Law Association of Zambia in 1980 marked the start of his confrontation with the leadership of the ruling UNIP led by Kenneth Kaunda.

Professional career

Chipimo, a Rhodes Scholar, graduated from Oxford with the Bachelor of Civil Law in 1990.^[1] Before going into politics, Chipimo was Managing Partner and Senior partner, responsible for corporate advisory work, mergers, acquisitions, investments and privitisations. His main area of work is corporate law, principally advisory work on mergers and acquisitions, privatisation and capital markets related work in Zambia as well as within the Southern African region.^[2]

Philosophy

Chipimo, who strongly believes in the importance of family, enjoys spending time with his wife and children. He also enjoys reading and playing golf in his spare time and can often be found farming his maize crops. Chipimo recently established the Restoration Forum which is an organization that aims to encourage every Zambian to take more of a measure of responsibility and better manage the five important areas that underpin personal responsibility: managing time; living up to our commitments; vision and planning; fact-based rather than emotional driven decision-making; greater independence in thought and action. Chipimo has published a book based on his opinion of the leadership in Zambia and the current state of the nation. The book is titled “Unequal to the Task” is available in bookstores around Zambia.^[3]

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