Augustine Magolowondo

Dr. Augustine Magolowondo is a seasoned governance and democracy expert with over 25 years of experience in international development, focusing on elections, political party strengthening, political dialogue, and conflict management across sub-Saharan Africa. Until May 2025, he served as Regional Director and Head of Programmes for Democracy Works Foundation, and as Chief of Party for a USAID-funded regional political parties and elections programme covering seven Southern African countries.

Dr. Magolowondo has provided strategic advisory support to political parties, parliaments, EMBs, and civil society actors. He previously held senior leadership roles with the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), where as African regional representative and Senior Expert (Political Parties and Elections) he provided expert leadership and oversight on initiatives aimed at promoting inter-party dialogue, political parties strengthening and elections.

He has also worked with GIZ in Malawi as an expert on decentralisation, conflict management, and dialogue promotion. He has contributed to seminal tools including the International IDEA/NIMD Facilitators’ Guide for Political Dialogue among others. He holds a PhD in Political Science, an MA in Development Management (from Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany) and BA in Public Administration (University of Malawi). He has published extensively in his field of work.