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| name              = Hakainde Hichilema
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| office            = President of the [[United Party for National Development|United Party <br>for National Development]]
| term_start        = 2006
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| predecessor        = [[Anderson Mazoka]]
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| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1962|6|4|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Monze]], [[Northern Rhodesia]]
| nationality        = Zambian
| party              = [[United Party for National Development|UPND]]
| spouse            = Mutinta
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| children          = {{Collapsible list|titlestyle=font-weight:normal; background:transparent; text-align:left;|title=3||Miyanda|Habwela|Chikonka}} 
| alma_mater        = [[University of Zambia]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[University of Birmingham]] {{small|([[Master of Business Administration|MBA]])}}
| profession        = [[Economist]]
| occupation        = [[Businessman]]
| religion          = [[Seventh-day Adventist]]
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| website            = [http://www.hh-zambia.com Official website]
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'''Hakainde Hichilema''' (born 4 June 1962) is a [[Zambia]]n businessman and politician serving as President of the opposition [[United Party for National Development]]. He is a [[perennial candidate|perennial]] [[President of Zambia|presidential]] candidate having contested four times in [[Zambian general election, 2006|2006]], [[Zambian presidential election, 2008|2008]], [[Zambian general election, 2011|2011]] and most recently [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|2015]].
==Early life and career==
Hichilema was born in a village in [[Monze District]] in present day Zambia. He received a [[scholarship]] to study at the [[University of Zambia]] and graduated in 1986 with a BA in Economics and Business Administration. He thereafter pursued an [[MBA]] in Finance and Business Strategy at the [[University of Birmingham]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hh-zambia.com/about/ |title=Biography: Hakainde Hichilema |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website=www.hh-zambia.com |publisher= |accessdate=23 January 2015}}</ref>
He served as the [[Chief Executive Officer]] of both [[Coopers and Lybrand|Coopers and Lybrand Zambia]] (1994-1998) and [[Grant Thornton International|Grant Thornton Zambia]] (1998-2006).<ref name ="cv">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=19 September 2008 |title=HH’s curriculum vitae |url=http://www.lusakatimes.com/2008/09/19/hhs-curriculum-vitae/ |newspaper=Lusaka Times |location= |accessdate=23 January 2015 }}</ref>
==Political career==
He is a member of the opposition [[United Party for National Development]], a [[Liberalism|liberal]] [[List of political parties in Zambia|political party]]. Following the death of [[Anderson Mazoka]] in 2006, he was elected as the party's new President. He also served as the leader of the [[United Democratic Alliance (Zambia)|United Democratic Alliance]] (UDA), an alliance of three opposition political parties.
In the [[Zambian presidential election, 2006|2006 election]], Hichilema was the candidate of the UDA and ran against incumbent president [[Levy Mwanawasa]] of the [[Movement for Multiparty Democracy]] and [[Patriotic Front (Zambia)|Patriotic Front]] candidate [[Michael Sata]]. He received the endorsement of former President [[Kenneth Kaunda]]. The election was held on 28 September 2006 and Hichilema took third place with about 25% of the vote.
Hichilema ran as the UPND candidate in the [[Zambian presidential election, 2008|2008 election]], which was called following the death of President Levy Mwanawasa.<ref>[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/10/content_9890454.htm "Zambia to hold presidential by-election on Oct.30"], Xinhua, September 10, 2008.</ref> He came 3rd with 19.7% of the vote. In June 2009, Hichilema's party, the UPND, formed a pact with [[Michael Sata]]'s Patriotic Front (PF) to contest the [[Zambian general election, 2011|2011 election]] together. However, indecision on the pact candidate, deep mistrust and accusations of tribalism from both sides resulted in the collapse of the pact in March 2011.<ref>[http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/17459 "Opposition alliance in Zambia collapse as UPND pulls out"], Newstime Africa, March 11, 2011.</ref>
He was one of the two main candidates in the [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|2015 election]], which he lost by a narrow margin of just 27,757 votes (1.66%) against the ruling party's candidate. Hichilema denounced the election as a [[Sham election|sham]] and urged his supporters to remain calm.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zambia/11367373/Zambia-opposition-cries-foul-as-Lungu-wins-presidential-election.html |title=Zambia opposition cries foul as Lungu wins presidential election |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=24 January 2015 |website= |publisher= Telegraph |accessdate=25 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://hh-zambia.com/blog/edgar-lungu-steals-election/ |title=Edgar Lungu steals election |last1=Hichilema |first1=Hakainde |date=24 January 2015 |website=hh-zambia.com |publisher= |accessdate=25 January 2015}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Hichilema is married to Mutinta and has three children.<ref name ="cv"/> He is a faithful member of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]].<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=24 December 2014 |title=HH: I am not a Masonist, I am Christian and a church elder at SDA |url=http://www.lusakatimes.com/2014/12/24/not-masonist-christian-church-elder-sda-hh/ |newspaper=[[Lusaka Times]] |location= |accessdate=23 January 2015 }}</ref> Hichilema is a [[millionaire]] and the second-largest [[cattle]] [[rancher]] in Zambia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Laing |first=Aislinn |date=19 January 2015 |title=Africa needs leaders to run countries like CEOs, Zambia's opposition leader says |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zambia/11354142/Africa-needs-leaders-to-run-countries-like-CEOs-Zambias-opposition-leader-says.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |location=[[Ndola]] |accessdate=23 January 2015 }}</ref>
In December 2014, he denied being a [[Freemason]] and labelled people accusing him as malicious.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=19 December 2014 |title=HH: I am an Adventist, I am a Christian, I don’t know what Freemasonry is |url=http://www.lusakatimes.com/2014/12/19/adventist-christian-dont-know-freemasonry-hh/ |newspaper=[[Lusaka Times]] |location= |accessdate=23 January 2015 }}</ref> He also sued Bishop Edward Chomba of the [[Orthodox Church]] for [[defamation]] after the former called him a [[Satanist]] and a Freemason.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=25 December 2015 |title=HH sues Bishop Chomba for calling him a Satanist and Freemason |url=http://www.lusakatimes.com/2014/12/25/hh-sues-bishop-chomba-calling-satanist-freemason/ |newspaper=Lusaka Times |location= |accessdate= 23 January 2015 }}</ref>
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