PROFILE OF INDEPENDENT NON- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Lynda Mataka holds an LLB degree, a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Drafting and a Master’s Degree in International Business Law ( LLM). Through her extensive career, she has accumulated a broad range of experience and skills spanning the fields of Private and Civil law, Financial Services, International Investment, as well as Corporate Governance and Compliance. She has extensive experience in financial services, having served as the Secretary to the Financial Sector Development, inspector in the Non- Bank Financial Sector Supervision Department and Legal Counsel Advisory and spearheaded the review and analysis of financial sector Legislation to align with other related Acts, at the Central Bank of Zambia. She has also served as a Board member of Access Bank Zambia, for ten years.

Lynda was instrumental in the entrance of new banks into the Zambian market, where she was also involved in the incorporation of their respective companies and obtaining various requisite regulatory approvals. She has first- hand experience in providing legal advice to banks within the African market.

She is currently a Non- Executive Director of Dangote Cement and Dangote Quarries ( Zambia).

Mrs. Lynda Mataka was appointed by the Board as an independent Non- Executive Director of Access Bank Botswana Limited, with effect from July 25, 2022.