Name : Mr Alfred Chinombo

Email : Mail@must.acc

Position : University Registrar

Mr Chinombo is the University Registrar and joined the university in June 2021. He is a seasoned higher education administrator, manager and leadership practitioner with 13 years of combined and progressive leadership and management experience in the Malawian higher education sector. He has held various portfolios in university leadership and management, including academic planning, governance and advising; strategy formulation and implementation, human resources management and development; staff and student support; implementation and management of ODeL, admissions; marketing; quality assurance, institutional planning and reporting.

He has a proven and progressive track record of success from University of Malawi (Unima) and Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Luanar) in shaping strategy and academic policies, initiating and implementing management and operational reforms, establishing enabling procedures and creating an environment and culture that values teamwork and the continuous improvement of academic and administrative processes. He has also been a key member of the ICT team that has established various innovative processes and systems at the NCHE regarding the harmonised public university selection.

Before joining MUST, Alfred worked as the Acting Deputy University Registrar at Lunar. He successfully championed Luanar’s digital transformation and streamlining of routine and complex academic and student admission administrative functions. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Malawi and a Master of Business Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.