s learned working in the male-dominated world of diplomacy You served as an ambassador to Zambia and India, from 2005 to 2012. Tell us what that entailed I was an academic teaching at the university, but the system in Malawi is that you can always second somebody to government to serve in another capacity. In 2005 I was the dean at the faculty of applied sciences, and we had a meeting with government...
I knew I had to change the mindset that ambassadors should be men
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