[1][2] She attended Saint Andrews International High School in Blantyre, Malawi, where she studied Mathematics, Geography and Economics at A-Level, from 1996 until 1998.
In June 2008, she became the head of economic research for Africa at Standard Bank, serving in that capacity until November 2010.
[1][3] In June 2016, following the Central Bank of Nigeria's decision to allow the niara to freely float against other currencies, Mhango said that floating the naira freely would "release a pressure valve for the economy", which would in turn "see the economy beginning to thaw and green shoots emerge possibly as soon as a year from now".
[4] Mhango, with others had correctly predicted such a devaluation in the naira, following the flotation of the Kazakhstan currency in August 2015.
[6] Yvonne Mhango is a co-author of the book The Fastest Billion[usurped], about Africa's economic revolution.