Benjamin Mattondo Banda is an Economic Affairs Officer with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Prior to joining the United Nations, he worked as a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Malawi, Chancellor College; and as Capacity Building Trainer for Malawi Enterprise Zone Associations. He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of Pretoria; a Masters Degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Social Science Degree from the University of Malawi.
His interests include policy analysis and economywide modelling. Some of his publications are: Estimating water demand for domestic use in rural South Africa in the absence of price information, Water Policy 9(5), 2007; Determinants of quality and quantity values of water in the Steelpoort sub-basin: A contingent valuation approach, Chapter 10 in Perret et al. (eds.), 2010. Water Governance for Sustainable Development: Approaches and Lessons from Developing and Transitional Countries; and Inter-fuel substitution and dynamic adjustment in input demand: Implications for deforestation and carbon emission in Malawi, in the African Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 6(1), 2011.