James is a qualified actuary and the Executive Director of the Zamara Group with over 30 years of experience in insurance, pensions, and investment consultancy in the UK, South Africa, and Kenya. He has been involved in and is responsible for providing actuarial advice to a range of insurance companies and government health care insurance and social security schemes. His exposure involves product design and pricing, advice on investment strategy, marketing, general management, reinsurance, solvency testing, actuarial valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and much more.

Ekari holds a certificate in Insurance from the Chartered Institute of Insurance, United Kingdom. He has a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Malawi, Chancellor College, Zomba. He has experience in pensions, insurance, banking and investments spanning over 7 years. Ekari is currently the Managing Director of Zamara Pensions Administrators Limited, Malawi. He is also our liaison consultant on financial services consulting projects, including pensions and insurance actuarial valuation projects in Malawi and other Southern African countries.