Gibson Mandishona
Dr Gibson Mandishona is a Zimbabwean statistician, renowned scholar and founder of CREET and the Scientific and Industrial Research Centre.
Dr Mandishona was born on February 2 1942 in Makwiro, Zvimba, Zimbabwe.
After high school he enrolled at University College of Rhodesia for a Bachelor Science degree from 1962-65. He later left for the United Kingdom to advance his academic studies where he attained a MSc and PhD in mathematics from the University of Exeter, Kent and Nottingham between 1969-75.
In between his studies he worked as a Statistician for the Pfizer Group from 1965 to 1969. He also worked as mathematics lecturer at the universities of Nottingham (1972-74) and London (1974-75). He moved to Addis Ababa to work for the United Nations as a consultant in statistics and demography between 1976 and 1980.
When Zimbabwe became independent he was Appointed Director, Central Statistics Office (CSO) Zimbabwe (1980). He left the CSO in 1993 and was appointed Project Manager of The Zimbabwe Solar Pilot project from 1993-98.
He is the founder of the Centre For Renewable Energy And Environmental Technology (CREET), the Scientific and Industrial Research Centre and the founding chairman of ZIMSTATS.
Dr Mandishona has also served as chairman of the Harare Institute of Technology and is a dean of Dean of Physical Sciences in the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences.
