Ferdinand M Chipindi

Ferdinand Chipindi is a specialist in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development. He has a PhD from the University of Minnesota, USA. His PhD was awarded in 2018. Ferdinand also has a Master of Education degree in Educational Administration, awarded in 2009, and a Bachelor of Arts with Education, obtained in 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at the University of Zambia. Ferdinand served as the Head of the department between June 1, 2019, and May 30, 2023. He has a track record of peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He has over sixteen years of experience as a consultant, researcher and lecturer at the University of Zambia in the allied fields of organisational leadership, public policy, change management, educational administration and management, and the economics of education. Between 2013 and 2016, Ferdinand was a co-consultant on a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Teacher Training in collaboration with Zambia’s Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training, and Early Education. Ferdinand was formerly a recipient of the Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change (ICGC) and Andrew Mellon fellowship, the Educational Evaluation and Policy Studies Fellowship, the Australian Awards Fellowship and the ICGC pre-dissertation grant. In 2022, Ferdinand also worked as a lead consultant on a study to ascertain the extent of the colonisation of higher education in Zambia under the auspices of the Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC). Ferdinand is currently working as a co-consultant on a project called “Understanding the Learning of Indigenous Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Regions of Chongwe and Kasenseli in Zambia: Towards an Inclusive Response (TIR) in Building Back Better.” This two-year project pools expertise from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, Rowan University in the United States of America, the University of Zambia, and Cheshire Homes Zambia. Ferdinand has vast experience in curriculum development and has developed over 22 courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Zambia. He pioneered the introduction of doctoral coursework, which revolutionised PhD education at the University of Zambia. Finally, he is an expert in qualitative research and has completed over 20 research projects using qualitative and quantitative conventions.