Mvemba Phezo Dizolele is a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.  He is currently working on his book, Mobutu:the Rise and Fall of the Leopard King, to be published by Random House-UK in 2010.

Dizolele has been an international business adviser, radio broadcaster, columnist, and foreign policy analyst. His work has been published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, as well as Forbes and Washington Times online.

He holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French from Southern Utah University. He served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve for eight years. He is fluent in French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swahili, Kikongo and Lingala, and is proficient in Danish and Swedish.