Bernard Mbulaje is a team-oriented leader with broad experience that spans financial management, corporate governance and compliance, as well as project management. He believes in compassionate leadership with emphasis on coaching as a way to achieve lasting and sustainable results. This belief, coupled with sheer dedication to produce measurable results, earned Bernard recognition as the co-winner of PSI\u2019s inaugural Andrew Boner Award in 2020.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining PSI Sierra Leone, Bernard was the Deputy Country Representative (DCR) for PSI Tanzania for 4 years (2017-2021.) While working as PSI Tanzania DCR, he also supported PSI Nigeria as interim DAF from March to August 2021 and also supported the Regional Finance Operations team with a number of assignments at the same time. Bernard initially joined the PSI family in 2011 in Malawi as a local hire Finance Manager and rose through the ranks to become the country office\u2019s Director of Finance & Administration before taking up the DCR role at PSI Tanzania.<\/p>\n
Previously, Bernard worked in various capacities in the private sector spanning a number of industries including banking, water utility and a foreign currency trading and travel company amongst other.<\/p>\n
Bernard holds a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Accountancy and a Master\u2019s in Business Administration. He also earned a fellowship of ACCA in 2012 and recognition as a Certified Public Accountant (Malawi) in 2010.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":54095,"template":"","meta":[],"staff_type":[24],"related_countries":[1637],"related_projects":[],"health-area":[],"capabilities-and-cross-cutting":[],"class_list":["post-53700","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff_type-country-leadership","related_countries-sierra-leone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/53700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_type?post=53700"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=53700"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=53700"},{"taxonomy":"health-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/health-area?post=53700"},{"taxonomy":"capabilities-and-cross-cutting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/capabilities-and-cross-cutting?post=53700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}