Annexure 1 NPRC Commissioners Biographies Commissioner Lilian Chigwedere (Deputy Chairperson) Commissioner Chigwedere started off as a high school Mathematics and Science teacher for fteen years. For the next ten years she served in the diplomatic service with her husband Ambassador Stanislaus Chigwedere. While on mission in Canada, United States of America and Namibia she chaired the Diplomatic Spouse's Association which engaged in many voluntary charity activities. In the ten years of her diplomatic life, she also took time to engage in further studies. She is a holder of BA Honors in Psychology from Carleton University in Canada. While in the United States of America, she graduated with a Masters in Counselling from the University of the District of Columbia in Washington and is listed in the Who is Who Among African Students in America, a record of students who maintain an Honors achievement throughout their studies. On coming back to Zimbabwe Commissioner Chigwedere worked as a consultant with UNDP on HIV /AIDS education and counseling programmes for all the UN staff in Zimbabwe. She went on to do similar work with other NGOs like CESVI, GTZ, ZAPSO and others. Thereafter she worked with the ministry of Health in cooperation with NGOs to train nurses and doctors in counseling under the PMTC programme aimed at preventing mother to child HIV transmission. Throughout the training programmes, she developed a counseling manual for use by health workers. In between consulting programmes she also lectured Psychology at the University of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Open University respectively. She was part of the team that developed the Counselling degree curriculum at the Zimbabwe Open University. At the start of the land reform programme she ventured into farming which she is ably running to this day. It is from this humble 42