Mr. Richard Ngassa Mazinge is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-T), Associate Certified Public Accountant (ACPAT), Associate Certified Public Accountant in Public Practice (ACPA-PP) and a registered Director by the Institute of Directors of Tanzania. He is also a hold of Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA-Finance & Banking).

He is working with Tanzania Education Authority as Chief Internal Auditor since May, 2012. Before joining TEA, he also worked with the National Social Security for nineteen years and succeeded to grow up to the position of Senior Internal Auditor, Senior Accountant and Senior Investigation officer. The key responsibilities of the Chief Internal Auditor is to provide independent assurance that, the Authority’s risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively.

He has attended various workshops, trainings and Seminars on audits, audit of Construction Projects, projects Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Risk Management, Procurement Management workshops, and Governance Seminars within and outside Tanzania.
    
CPA. Richard Ngassa Mazinge has also participated in the study of Financing Mechanisms and Institutional Arrangements for Skills Development in Tanzania which was Coordinated by The Ministry of Education and Vocational Education and Ministry of Labour Youth Development under the Project named as Science, Technology and Higher Education additional Funding (STHEP- AF).  He also participated in various key tasks in the Authority among being; providing advisory services on existing, being developed/reviewed key Policies included Board Charter, TEA Act and many others to mention a few.