Senani Mamba

Senani is an economic modeller from Eswatini whose mission is to contribute to poverty reduction for sustainable development and create value through service using skills in research by using economic models and to solve complex socio-economic problems such as increasing access to natural and essential resources for the poor. Her research interests are water pollution, water resources management and decision-making under uncertainty. Her passion lies in research and presenting reliable solutions found through gathering information, using a scientific approach in making conclusions.

In her undergraduate and background education, she has obtained distinctions in modules including production economics, natural and environmental economics, amongst others. She holds a Master's in Agricultural Economics from the University of Pretoria, where her dissertation focused on using choice models to determine farmer preferences for financial products in an uncertain environment. From the academic work done for her dissertation, she expanded her skill set in data analysis and research.

She presented her Master's Dissertation work at the 2022 AFAERE Annual Conference. Her early career focused on sustainable development in implementing climate-smart projects aimed at supporting smallholder farmers, women and youth in practising ecological agriculture with notable achievements such as organising youth from over 44 African countries to attend the Durban Intra African Trade Fair.