Amanda J Lieto

Amanda Jane Lieto is a PhD Candidate at Africa University in Zimbabwe. She focuses on governance and her thesis is titled: The impact of climate related disasters on women smallholder banana farmers and food household security in Chipinge. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Governance and her areas of interest are public policy, food security, gender, climate change, migration, economic justice, and resilience. She has published peer reviewed journal articles with the Journal for Public Policy in Africa. She consults widely in the space of women’s economic empowerment and financial inclusion, smart agriculture, and leadership. She is also the Southern Africa regional resource mobilization coordinator for Africans Rising a pan African movement that works across Africa. She was awarded the Women Economic Forum WEF, Iconic Woman Making the World a Better Place award and the Global Student Entrepreneur Award where she represented Zimbabwe in Washington DC as a tech entrepreneur.