Movement for Democratic Change – Mutambara
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The Right Honourable Arthur Mutambara |
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Mutambara at the 2009 World Economic Forum on Africa.
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe | |
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In office 11 February 2009 – August 2013 Serving with Thokozani Khupe |
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| Prime Minister | Morgan Tsvangirai |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Former President of the Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara | |
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Assumed office 27 February 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
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25 May 1966 Rhodesia |
| Political party | Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara (2005–present) |
| Alma mater |
University of Zimbabwe Merton College, Oxford |
| Profession | Roboticist |
| Religion | United Methodist Church |
Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara (born 25 May 1966) is a Zimbabwean politician. He became the president of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in February 2006. He has worked as the managing director and CEO of Africa Technology and Business Institute since September 2003. Under a September 2008 power-sharing agreement, Mutambara served in the government as one of two Deputy Prime Ministers from 2009 to 2013.
Mutambara was president of the Student Representative Council of the University of Zimbabwe in 1988 and 1989. He led anti-government protests at the University of Zimbabwe which led to his arrest and imprisonment. He was later educated on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1991, at Merton College, Oxford in the United Kingdom where he obtained a DPhil in Robotics and Mechatronics, and in the United States where he spent time as a visiting Fellow in the same field, including both California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Florida A & M University – Florida State University College of Engineering. He also worked as a lecturer on Business Strategy and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company.
Mutambara criticised government ministers for abusing Zimbabwe's land reform program, engaging in: "monopolistic politics of domination, corruption, and petty bourgeois accumulation."
Mutambara, a self-professed admirer of Che Guevara, has also expressed his intention to visit Cuba to learn more about its "successful resistance" to American sanctions. Mutambara added: "We have a lot to learn from Cuba which started its revolution in 1959, we will continue with our solidarity, continue with the struggle and strengthen our co-operation."
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