The success of NICO will critically be dependant on the quality of its Board and its Management. Consequently, extreme care will be exercised to ensure that those that will be involved in NICO have had a track record that can meet the NICO challenge and produce the best results.
 
The spirit of NICO will require that all Board Members including the Chairman will provide their services to NICO gratis. While the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for NICO must be properly compensated, effort will be made to explore possibilities for funding from various sources to cover the CEO and where possible other key personnel.

Mr. Felix G. N. Mosha, Chairman
Mr. Felix G. N. Mosha (61) is an economist by profession and holds a B.Sc (Econ) and an M.Sc (Econ) as well as postgraduate diplomas in Management, Marketing and International Trade. He pursued his studies at the Helsinki School of Economics, the City of London College and Harvard Business School. Mr. Mosha has over 22 years experience with the United Nations where he served various positions including; Chief, Africa Trade Development Centre (UNECA) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Senior Economist, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) New York; Representative UN Africa Regional office, UN Commission for Namibia; Senior Aide and Advisor to General Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Director of Africa Leadership Forum under General Obasanjo; UN Special Advisor to the late Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere on the Burundi peace negotiations; and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Somalia. Mr. Mosha is currently in farming and other businesses. He coordinated the NICO initiative and became its first Chairman.
 

Judge Mark Bomani, Vice-Chairman
Judge Mark Danhi Bomani, (68) is a Lawyer by profession having qualified in England as a barrister as well as a graduate of Makerere University in politics and economics. Mr. Bomani was the Attorney General of Tanzania from 1965 to 1976. He was senior legal adviser in the United Nations between 1976 and 1990, working on a special assignment towards Namibian independence as well as judicial system. During 1993 to 1996, Mr. Bomani chaired a World Bank funded project on the Tanzania Legal sector reform, which resulted in a comprehensive report on the legal sector in Tanzania. Mr. Bomani was the Chief Aide to both the Late Mwalimu Nyerere and former South African President Nelson Mandela on Burundi peace negotiations as well as Chairman of the former Tanzania Broadcasting Commission. Mr. Bomani is currently running a private law practice.
 

Mr. Ibrahim M. Kaduma, Board Member
Mr. Ibrahim M. Kaduma (67) is an economist with a BSc. Economics Degree from Makerere College (1965) and a B. Phil. Degree in Public Finance from York University, UK (1966). His public service career as an Economist started in the Treasury in 1965. In 1967 he was elevated to Director of External Finance and Technical Co-operation. After that he served in several senior positions in the Government and Parastatals, including inter alia, Deputy Secretary to the Treasury and Treasury Registrar 1969 –70; Principal Secretary Ministry of Communications, Transport and Labour 1970 – 72; Principal Secretary to the Treasury (1972 – 1973); Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es salaam 1973 - 75 and Vice-Chancellor, University of Dar es salaam 1977 - 80; Minister for Foreign Affairs 1975 - 77. He was Minister of Trade and Minister of Communications and Transport between 1980 and 1982. He was Chairman of NMB from its inception in 1997 to 2003 and also served as Commissioner of PSRC 1996 – 2003. Mr. Kaduma served in several important commissions such as the ones dealing with the reform of the Monetary and Banking System (1988 – 90); The Warioba commission on corruption (1996 – 97) and the task force on Co-operatives (2000). Mr. Kaduma was member of the CCM Central Committee (1977 – 82) and National Executive Committee (NEC) of CCM (1977 – 82 and 1989-92). He is presently Chancellor of Mzumbe University and serves as a Consultant in various business and economic projects.
 

Mrs. Chilwa Kiliaki, Board Member
Mrs. Chilwa Kiliaki (45) is an economist with a BSc. (Hons) from The Sokoine University of Agriculture (1980) and an MSc. from Michigan State University, USA (1985). She worked as an economist in the Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture from 1980 to 1986, before joining the Bank of Tanzania in 1987, where she has remained since. She is currently a Deputy Director in the Directorate of Economic Policy in the Bank of Tanzania.

Mrs. Salome J. Mbatia, Board Member
Mrs. Salome J. Mbatia (52) is a management specialist and economist by training. She has a BA (Hons) from the University of Dar es Salaam (1976), MSc. Management from ADL Management Institute (USA- 1982) and Post-Graduate Diploma in Administration & Management from RVB Delft (Holland- 1987). She has had extensive experience in running commercial enterprises, starting her carrier with the Board of Internal Trade (1977), rising to Marketing Manager and District Sales Manager within the same organization before she left to join the Biashara Consumer Services Co. ltd in 1979. There she rose to the post of General Manager in 1990. She left Biashara in year 2000 to join her current political position. She is presently a Member of Parliament (Special Seats –CCM) Kilimanjaro region, a member of the National Executive Committee as well as Central Committee of CCM as well as the Party Treasurer. During 1998 to 2003, she served as a trustee of the Tanzania Privatisation Trust.

Brig. Gen. Hashim I. Mbita, Board Member

Brig. Gen. Hashim Mbita (69) is a retired Civil Servant, Army Officer, Journalist and Politician. On leaving school in 1957 he joined the Co-operative Department from where he moved to Public Relations, Military and Politics. At different times he worked as Government Chief Press Officer, Press Secretary to the President of the United Republic of Tanzania; Publicity Secretary, and National Executive Secretary of TANU. He participated at the African Executives Seminar on Newspapers Management at the American Press Institute – Columbia University, New York in 1965. He subsequently served as Chief Executive of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa. He was commissioned at the Mons Officer Cadet School – Aldershort in the United Kingdom. Presently, he is the Tanzania High Commissioner to Zimbabwe.

Adv. Colman Mark Ngalo, Board Member

Advocate Colman Mark Ngalo (62) holds a Bachelor of Law Degree (Hons) from the University of East Africa Dar es Salaam College. He is trained as a lawyer with special bias on commercial law, local government administration, media law and property law. Adv. Ngalo has over 30 years experience in legal practice. He worked as State Attorney, Local Government Legal Advisor and Principal Assistant Counsel in the former East African Community. He has been member of the Board of Trustee of Tanzania National Parks; Member of Regional Electoral Authority; Member of the Executive Council African Bar Association and Secretary of the ABA Human Rights Committee; Vice president of Tanganyika Law Society and President of East African Society. Currently, Adv. Ngalo is a managing Partner of Ngalo & Company Advocates; Member of the International Court of Arbitration (Paris) and Executive Chairman of Tengeru Flowers Limited.

Engineer Mark W. Njiu, Board Member

Engineer Mark W. Njiu (52) holds a BSc. (Hons) in Civil Engineering from University of Science and Technology Kumasi Ghana (1976) and a Masters in Engineering degree from Sheffield University UK (1980). He is a Structural Engineer consultant who has been responsible for over 400 projects in building bridges and water retaining structures countrywide. He initially worked with Ministry of Works as Assistant Executive Engineer and was a co-founder of Inter-Consult Ltd in 1978 which he joined as a Structural Engineer rising to a Director in 1985 and to its Managing Director since 2000. He is a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) U.K; American Society of Civil Engineers (MASCE); Institution of Engineers Tanzania (IET) and Association of Consulting Engineers ACET where he has served as Chairman for 2 terms. He is a Board member and Vice Chairman of the Engineers Registration Board (ERB) and Member Faculty Board - UCLAS (FLSMVEE). He is the Managing Director of Fresh Food Program Ltd a Dairy Farming Company, Director in Inter Press Ltd and Board Member and Vice Chairman of the Construction Industry Development Fund (CIDF). He is also a Managing Director of Kilimanjaro Mountain Resort Ltd and a Director of Inter-Real Estate Limited.

Ambassador Anthony Nyakyi, Board Member
Ambassador Anthony Nyakyi (68) studied at Makerere, Uganda where he obtained a B.A degree in 1962. Except for brief periods of 2 years each (first as a fresh administrative officer and later as Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Defense) Ambassador Nyakyi’s 32-year public career has been in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in its headquarters or in the field). He retired in 1994 having served as Ambassador/High Commissioner respectively in The Hague, Bonn, Harare, London and the United Nations (UN). His experience includes participation in several international conferences under the auspices of the UN, OAU and the Non-Aligned Movement. He has also undertaken special assignments such as Representative of President Nyerere in the Six-Nation Initiative on Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Liberia from 1994 – 1997. During 1998 – 2001 he was a member of the Facilitation Team in the Burundi Peace Negotiations.

Dr. Martha A. S. Qorro, Board Member
Dr. Martha A.S. Qorro (52) is a BA graduate of the University of Dar es Salaam (1977). She obtained her M.A. degree at the University of Bangor, North Wales, UK. in 1982 and her Doctorate degree from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in 1999. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Dar es Salaam. She and Dr. Zaline Roy-Campbell jointly conducted a Survey on Students’ Reading Competence in English in Tanzania Secondary Schools between 1986-1987, and co-authored a book entitled the “Language Crisis: The Myth Of English Versus Education”, published by Mkuki na Nyoka in 1997. Dr. Martha Qorro was the head of Foreign Languages and Linguistics Department at the UDSM from July 2000 – June 2003.

Mrs. Tabitha Ijumba Siwale, Board Member
Mrs. Tabitha Siwale (65) is a graduate of the University of Nairobi where she obtained a Degree in Home Economics in 1968. A teacher by profession, she has taught in many girls’ secondary schools. She was nominated a Member of Parliament in 1975 and appointed Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development in 1975. She was appointed Minister for National Education in 1984. From 1984 to 1986 and 1984 to 1989, she was the Chairperson of the Dairy Farming Company (DAFCO) and National Provident Fund (NPF) respectively. From 1996 to 2002 she was Trustee of Parastatal Pensions Fund (PPF) and from 1997 to 2003 she served on the Board of National Microfinance Bank Ltd.