# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chileshe-kapwepwe
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:37:24.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chileshe-kapwepwe"
name: "Chileshe Kapwepwe"
slug: "chileshe-kapwepwe"
description: "Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe, is a Zambian accountant and corporate executive, who serves as the Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), effective 18 July 2018. She made history as the first woman to be elected to the position,following her election at the 20th COMESA Heads of State and Government Summit in Lusaka, Zambia's capital city."
tagline: "Zambian accountant and corporate executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chileshe_Kapwepwe_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.77
  momentum:             17.92517006802721
  historical:           6.60684
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 195
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Chileshe Kapwepwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chileshe Kapwepwe"
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    title: "Chileshe Kapwepwe"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chileshe_Kapwepwe"
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  - url: "https://mos.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chileshe_Kapwepwe"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%92_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%88%DB%92"
    title: "چیلیشے کاپویپوے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chileshe_Kapwepwe"
    title: "Chileshe Kapwepwe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55759662"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump