Thelma Malenga is a mining sector legal professional with over eight years of experience, currently serving as Company Secretary & Legal Manager at Lubambe Copper Mine Limited, where she leads the legal, risk, compliance, and corporate governance functions.
She began her career as a Contracts Officer handling key mining agreements and progressively advanced through roles as Legal Officer and Associate Legal Counsel to her current leadership position. Her experience includes sale and purchase agreements, mining transactions, legal due diligence, debt financing agreements, offtake arrangements, licence alterations, corporate restructurings, and regulatory compliance.
She holds an LLB from the University of Zambia and an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Salford. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Law Association of Zambia, and serves as a Board Trustee of the Lubambe Copper Mine Limited Employees’ Pension Scheme, where she also chairs the Investment Committee.
