Jean Kalilani

Jean Alfazema Nachika Kalilani is a Malawian politician who has served in the Cabinet of Malawi as Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security since 2015. Previously she was Minister of Health from 2014 to 2015. She is also the Secretary General of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and second term Member of Parliament for Dowa Central Constituency.[1] As an MP, she served as the Women's Caucus Chair and as the International Relations Chair in the National Assembly.[2] She previously worked for the World Health Organization in Botswana as a country representative.[3]

Honourable
Jean Kalilani
MP
Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare
Assumed office
17 June 2017
PresidentPeter Mutharika
Member of Parliament
for Dowa Central
Assumed office
?
Personal details
NationalityMalawian
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party

After DPP candidate Peter Mutharika was elected President, he appointed Kalilani as Minister of Health in June 2014. She was moved to the post of Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security in August 2015.[4]

She is also the mother of recording artist Tay Grin.

References
  1. "AfriqueJet Actualités : résultats sports, Loto, Euromillions, My Million". www.afriquejet.com. Archived from the original on 2012-06-12. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  2. http://www.maravipost.com/malawi-politics/district/2894-its-political-relieved-ousted-womens-leader.html#ixzz1XUgn5tVj
  3. "Jean-Alfazema Kalilani". www.afdevinfo.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-10.
  4. Thom Chiumia, "Nankhumwa, Muluzi demoted in Malawi cabinet protocol rank" Archived 2015-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, Nyasa Times, 19 August 2015.


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