Qualifications:
- PhD in Economics, University of KwaZulu Natal, SA
- MSc in Economics, University of Zimbabwe
- BSc Honours in Economics, University of Zimbabwe
Profile Overview
Dr Zachary Tambudzai was appointed as the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at Bindura University of science Education from May 2022. He served as the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Commerce/Business Sciences at Midlands State University from December 2014 to May 2022. Before that, he headed the Department of Economics in acting capacity from 2001 to 2003. He also was both Deputy Dean and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Commerce in acting capacity from 2012 to 2014.
He is highly acclaimed in his research areas, including economics, security sector economics, foreign direct investment and economics of development and the public sector. He is a well-accomplished scholar who published in various local and international journals (referred and non-referred) with over 25 articles and book chapters and has worked on several research and consultancy projects. Besides publishing numerous peer‐reviewed research articles he is also part of editorial teams of peer-reviewed journals. Dr Tambudzai has presented at various international conferences hosted by renowned universities that include Oxford University, Coventry and Lancaster in the United Kingdom, Izmir University of Economics in Turkey, UKZN, UCT, Nelson Mandela and University of Free State in South Africa. He presented over 35 conference and seminar research papers. He successfully organised five international conferences in SA and Zimbabwe.
Dr Zachary Tambudzai besides being an accomplished academic with vast experience in higher education management, he has vast community engagement experience. Dr Zachary Tambudzai is the current Chairperson of the ZNCC national training centre board. He was the ZNCC Midlands branch from 2020 to 2022. He also sits on the National Executive Committee Board of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce in Zimbabwe since 2020. In addition, Dr Tambudzai was also a board member of the Bindura University of Science Education Council from 2022 to 2023.
Dr Tambudzai has worked with the business community and various arms of government in Zimbabwe. He has participated in ZNCC, CZI, NECF, ZTA, ZIMTRADE, ZIMCOD and the Zimbabwe Economic Society activities. He was a member of the Midlands Provincial Economic Development Committee responsible for producing the Provincial National Development Strategy 1. He is currently a member of the Mashonaland Central Economic Development Committee as deputy chair of the Economic Growth cluster.
Dr Zachary Tambudzai holds a PhD in Economics from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa and a Master of Science and BSc Honours degrees in Economics from the University of Zimbabwe.
Research Interests: Economics of the security sector, Economics of the public sector, foreign direct investment, Special economic zones, e-governance, financial and investment economics and more recently AI and environmental issues.
Research articles: You can have access to most of the research articles via
Researchgate and Googlescholar
The Faculty of Commerce
The Faculty of Commerce was founded in 2004 as the Department of Business Studies. In 2006, the Department was weaned by the Faculty of Education and granted Faculty status. The Faculty of Commerce has eighty-nine academic teaching staff and thirteen non-teaching staff. The academic staff includes two Professors, twenty-seven PhD holders, fifty-seven Masters” degree holders and eleven (11) Honours Degree holders. The Faculty has six departments.
The departments are listed below:
- Department of Accountancy
- Department of Banking and Finance
- Department of Economics (Includes a Supply Chain Management Division)
- Department of Human Capital Management
- Department of Intelligence and Security Studies(Policing and Financial Intelligence divisions)
- Department of Marketing
The faculty of Commerce offers various degrees, diplomas and certificate programmes. All departments also offer PhD degrees through research. For more detailed programme enrolment requirements visit departmental webpages through links provided on this page. We also have a Faculty programmes brochure link on this webpage.
