- Elias Chipimo Jr. (born September 1965) is a Zambian politician and the president of the National Restoration Party.
- He previously worked as a corporate lawyer and human rights activist.
- Chipimo is the third boy in a family of seven. \
- He grew up in
Lusaka, but also lived in the United Kingdom, where his father served as a diplomat in the late 1960s. - Chipimo’s father (and namesake) made a speech to the Law Association of Zambia in 1980 which marked the start of his confrontation with
the leadership of the ruling UNIP led by Kenneth Kaunda. - Chipimo, a Rhodes Scholar, graduated from Oxford with the Bachelor of Civil Law in 1990.
- Before going into politics, Chipimo was Managing Partner and
Senior partner , responsible for corporate advisory work, mergers, acquisitions, investments and privatisations. - Elias’s main area of work is corporate law, principally advisory work
on mergers and acquisitions, privatisation and capitalmarkets related work in Zambia as well as within the Southern African region. - Chipimo in 2010 established the National Restoration Party (Www.newzambia.org)a political party that aims to encourage every Zambian to take more of a measure of responsibility and better manage the five important areas that underpin personal responsibility: managing time; living up to our commitments; vision and planning; fact-based rather than emotional driven decision-making; greater independence in thought and action.
- Chipimo has published a book based on his opinion of the leadership in Zambia and the current state of the nation.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Elias Chipimo Jnr
