Amon Chizema was born in Zimbabwe and has lived in France, Botswana, and the UK. He holds a PhD in Corporate Governance from Loughborough University, UK. Currently, Amon is Professor of Corporate Governance and International Business at Loughborough University. He is also the Director of Internationalisation at Loughborough Business School.
He was Head of the International Business, Strategy, and Innovation Group at Loughborough University from 2011 to 2015. He was then appointed Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy and Director of Research for the Department of Strategy and International Business at the University of Birmingham between 2015 and 2019. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria, South Africa.