Kenneth Kaoma Mwenda is Senior Counsel in the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank in Washington, DC. Professor Mwenda is also Extraordinary Professor of Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds, among other qualifications, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Zambia; a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL/MPhil) degree from the University of Oxford, UK, a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) from the University of Hull, UK, and a PhD in Corporate Law from the University of Warwick, UK.

A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Mwenda has also served as an academic in the Law Faculty of the University of Warwick, UK. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Zambia, the University of Miskolc (Hungary), the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and the University of Western Cape (South Africa), respectively. Recently, in 2008, upon the successful examination of Professor Mwenda’s large volume of published scholarly work, Rhodes University in South Africa awarded Professor Mwenda the esteemed (and rare) Higher Doctorate Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD). Within Commonwealth Africa, and among Commonwealth African legal scholars in the diasporas, Professor Mwenda is one of the extremely few Higher Doctorate degree holders in the field of law. Professor Mwenda is the author of 18 scholarly books and over 70 articles in leading peer-reviewed academic and professional journals.