Cecilia Zimba has extensive professional experience and significant executive leadership accomplishments in business. She has served as Independent non-Executive Director on various Boards in both Public and Private Sector. She is the immediate past President of the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA) the first female to hold this position since ZICA’s establishment in 1982. Prior to this, she served as the First female Vice President of ZICA. Her previous Board appointments include the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) where she served as Vice Chairperson, Zambia Industrial Commercial Bank (ZICB) where she served as Audit Committee Chairperson. Other Public institution Boards she served include ZESCO and the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC). She was one of the first commissioned Board members of the FIC and she chaired the Finance and Administration Committee. She is past Board member of ABSA Life and former Chairperson of the ABSA Staff Pension Scheme.

She is an Alumni of various Universities and has undertaken several Post graduate studies in Business Leadership which include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) GABV Leadership program, the Swedish Institute of Management Leadership Program, Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership and the Presencing Institute Impact Hub Leadership.