GODWIN PUNUNGWE has over 40 years’ experience in railway and road transport, trade and transport facilitation. He has worked for: National Railway of Zimbabwe; SADC as Railway Expert; USAID Regional Centre for Southern Africa; African Development Bank as Transport Advisor attached to NEPAD; USAID Southern Africa Global Trade Hub; AUC as Team Leader for defining and designing SMART Corridors; and lastly SADC as Transport Coordinator for the Tripartite Transport and Transit Facilitation Programme up to May 2023. He is currently a freelance Senior Consultant. He is Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport (MCIT), Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport (CMILT); holds a Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Master of International Management (MIM) and Master of Policy Studies.