Mukovhe Masutha

Dr Masutha has worked as a Policy and Strategy Analyst at Divisions of Economic intelligence in Local and National government departments.
He currently holds the positions of Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science (UJ), Special Advisor in the Ministry in the Presidency on Youth Policy, and Head of Research, Innovation and Partnerships at the Centre for Emerging Researchers, also based at UJ.

Dr Masutha holds a BA in Economic Geography, BSc Honours in Cities Planning and Development from Wits University, an MSC in Economic Geography and SMMEs Incubation from UJ and PhD in Policy and Management from the University of Bath (UK).

Dr Masutha serves on a number of current and former local and international advisory boards:

Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology’s Nurturing Future Scholars Programme (NSP) (South Africa)

Member of the Chilean Government’s International Panel of Experts on Free Education Policies and Public Funding Strategies of Higher Education

Transnational Advisory Committee of the Black Health Matters Research Project (University of Toronto, Canada)

South African Government’s Presidential Youth Working Group (South Africa)

Member of the Technical Committee of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Higher Education Funding (South Africa)

Academic Advisory Committee of the Climate Action Network for International Educators (CANIE, Australia)