Dorothy Tembo  Dorothy (Ng’ambi) Tembo (born 28 December 1961) is a Zambian economist and trade and development expert. She is currently the acting executive director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. She served as Deputy Executive Director of ITC from June 2014 to January 2020. Tembo served as the executive director of the Enhanced Integrated Framework from October 2008 until October 2013. She has also held several senior positions in the Government of Zambia, notably as Chief Trade Negotiator and Director of Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry of Zambia from 2004 until 2008. Tembo was born in 1961 in Lusaka, Zambia. She grew up in the Zambian capital with her six siblings, where her parents worked as educationalists. Tembo attended Roma Girls’ Secondary School and proceeded to the University of Zambia, where she obtained a Degree in Economics with African Development Studies. She has also completed a number of post graduate and skills building initiatives. Tembo joined the Zambian civil service in 1985 as an economist in the National Commission for Development Planning. In 1990 she joined Meridien Biao Bank where she was in charge of operations for one of its largest branches. In 1995, Tembo returned to the public sector as a Senior Economist responsible for regional integration programmes in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry. From 2000 until 2003, Tembo served as Deputy Team Leader on a USAID RAPID project in Gaborone, Botswana, supporting member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the implementation of the SADC Trade Protocol. In 2003 and 2004, Tembo served as a Trade and Investment Advisor on the USAID-funded Zambia Trade and Investment Enhancement Project (ZAMTIE) project in Lusaka, providing support to the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry and the private sector. In May 2004, the then President of the Republic of Zambia, Levy Mwanawasa appointed Tembo as Zambia’s Chief Trade Negotiator and Director of Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry. One of her key responsibilities during this period was to lead the Zambian technical team in its capacity as coordinator of the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) during the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2005. Among the agreements reached in Hong Kong was the decision to extend duty and quota-free market access to LDCs and the Aid-for-Trade agenda, an initiative that seeks to place a spotlight on the role of trade related capacity building in supporting growth and sustainable development with the aim of ensuring for poverty reduction.