Kenneth Mahuni

Accomplished Senior Economist at the Ministry of Industry & Commerce, adept in utilizing Stata and E Views for data analysis. Proven ability to drive business development initiatives and enhance economic understanding through effective tutoring. Strong communicator with a strategic mindset, committed to delivering impactful results in economic policy and education.

• Academics Stand Against Poverty Fellow (2025) Yale University
• 9th Amartya Sen Prize Winner ( 2022) Global Financial Integrity [ Academics Stand Against Poverty]
• Mauritius Africa Scholarship (MASS) Awardee (2021)
• Amartya Sen Prize (2020)- International Economic Association (IEA)
• KOICA CIAT Best Practice - Grand Prize, 2018, Korea International Corporation Agency (KOICA)
• KOICA Scholarship Awardee ( 2015-2016) South Korea
• Honourable Mention Prize Award (2016)- 2nd Korea -Africa Essay Contest
• Ajou University Best Thesis (2016)-Dean’s Award

Patron Teacher, Community Based AIDS Programme (CBAP), University of Zimbabwe, 01/01/08, 12/31/10

• COMESA 9th Annual Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt, 2022, 'Industrial Clusters: A Tool to Enhance Competitiveness and Intra-COMESA Trade
• COMESA 10th Annual Research Forum, 'Prospects and Challenges of Transitioning the COMESA Mining and Metals Industry to Circular Economy
• COMESA 11th Annual Research Forum, 'Travel and Tourism in COMESA: A Diamond Factor Model Perspective
• 17th Official Development Assistance, Seoul, South Korea

Open Access Library Journal, 2025

• Community Based Aids Programme Patron (CBAP), 2008-2010
• NUBI Social Group Member, Ajou University, South Korea, 2015-2016
• Blood Donor Member, National Blood Transfusion of Zimbabwe, 01/01/06, Present

• Dr. T. Makahamadze, George Mason Fellow, USA, tompsmak@gmail.com
• Dr. Josiah Taru, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe, tarujosiah@gmail.com

• Africa’s Incomplete Cycles of Development, Mahuni K, Taru J and Bonga W. G., (2020), Peter Lang International Publishers
• Zimbabwe’s Economy: Four Decades in Perspective, Mahuni, K., Zivanomoyo, J., Siyakiya, P., & Mutsvangwa, S., (2025) , Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, Springer Nature

• 'Pandemic in a Pandemic': Covid 19, Public Procurement Corruption and Illicit Financial Flows in Sub Saharan Africa, Mahuni, K, 2023, Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty, 3, 1, 1-16
• An Explanatory Analysis on the Impact of Industrial Cluster Strategy on Industry Growth in Zimbabwe, Mahuni, K and Bonga, W G, 2016, Dynamic Research Journals' Journal of Economics and Finance (DRJ-JEF), 1, 1, October, 22-32, https://ssrn.com/abstract=2866469
• The Globalization of African firms, Mahuni, K, 2016, Korea Africa Centre Publications
• Validating Twin Deficit Hypotheses: The Zambian Case, Mahuni, K, 2017, Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review, 1, 2, 2508-4488, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2874375
• Nexus between Foreign Direct Investment and Doing Business Indicators for Zimbabwe. A Time Series Analysis, Mahuni K and Bonga, W, 2017, Dynamic Research Journals Journal of Economics and Finance (DRJ-JEF), 2, 2, February, 01-08, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2925086