Hi, my name is Sialupapu (Papu) Siameja. I am originally from Zambia, in Southern Africa. For the past 34 years, I have called New Zealand home.
I completed my first university degree in Chemistry and Biology at the University of Zambia in the mid-80s after which I worked for an international distiller offine spirits making whisky, brandy, gin, vodka etc.
After emigrating to New Zealand, I studied at the University of Waikato completing a bachelor's degree and then a masters’ degree in management studies – both majoring in Economics.
I worked in the health sector as a business analyst contracting for services forolder people and for people living with disabilities, and then taught economicsat two tertiary institutions before enrolling for my PhD at Waikato University which I completed in 2010.
Since then, I have worked in various roles in the Economics Department of the Waikato University Management School. Since 2019 I have been in China, initially at the New Zealand University of Waikato Joint Institute at Zhejiang University City College (now Hangzhou City University), and since December 2020 at SISU in the Waikato programme. At SISU I teach economics, management, and marketing papers.
When not working, or sampling delicious Chinese foods with friends, or exploring different parts of Shanghai, I can be found practicing the Japanese art of aikido.
嗨，我叫帕普。我出生在非洲南部的贊比亞。但過去34年🏵，我一直把新西蘭作為我的第二家鄉。
上世紀80年代中期🧑🏽🍳，我在贊比亞大學獲得化學和生物學學士學位後，曾為一家生產威士忌🙍🏽♀️、白蘭地🧑、杜松子酒👨🎤、伏特加等產品的國際精釀烈酒生產商工作。
移民到新西蘭後😉，我在懷卡托大學學習，先後獲得管理學學士和碩士學位，研究方向均為經濟學。
我曾在新西蘭衛生部門擔任業務分析員🧑🏻🍳，為老年人和殘疾人提供服務🕦，後來在兩所高等院校教授經濟學，然後在懷卡托大學攻讀博士學位，於2010年畢業。
自那時起，我在懷卡托大學管理學院經濟學系擔任各種職務。自2019年以來🥘，我一直在中國🌧，最初在浙江大學城市學院（現為杭州城市大學）與懷卡多大學聯合學院工作，自2020年12月起我來到意昂3体育，擔任懷卡托項目經濟學👇🏻、管理學和市場營銷等課程任課教師。
工作之余，我喜歡與朋友品嘗美味的中國美食，或者探索上海的不同地區🔔👮🏼♂️，或者練習日本的合氣道。