Meet Our New Chief Executive Officer (CPA Silli Mbewe)

CPA Silli Mbewe is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), having completed his ACCA in 2000 and subsequent Fellowship in 2006 and having graduated from the University of Malawi (BEd(Sc.)) in 1997. He is a registered Certified Public Accountant with the Malawi Accountants Board (MAB) and sits on the Public Sector Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM).

He has a practical working knowledge of the water sector and water utility management in Malawi having joined Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) in 2013 as Director of Finance, where his immediate task was to turn LWB into a profit-making Parastatal and has acted as Chief Executive Officer from November 2020.  He has over 15 years of corporate executive management and leadership experience, having previously been appointed in 2006 as Director of Assembly Financial Management Services of the National Local Government Finance Committee (NLGFC), a quasi-Government institution established under the Constitution of the Republic of Malawi to drive the fiscal decentralization reform agenda in Malawi.

He had joined the NLGFC in 2001 and by the time he was leaving the NLGFC, he had successfully spearheaded the fiscal and functional devolution of thirteen (13) line Ministries and sectors.  He was also appointed by the Government of Malawi in 2008 to serve as the Fund Manager (CEO) of the interim Local Development Fund (LDF) Management Unit which had been established to set up the institutional and operational framework of the LDF as a harmonized development financing mechanism of the Local Authorities. He combined this position with that of the Director of Assembly Financial Management Services of the NLGFC.

CPA Silli Mbewe has previous working experience from academia having worked with the Malawi College of Accountancy, the legally established training institution of Accountants in Malawi, and from the banking sector. The Lilongwe Water Board wishes him all the best in his new position.