Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala

Tshilidzi Marwala is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg. He was previously a full Professor of Electrical Engineering, the Carl and Emily Fuchs Chair of Systems and Control Engineering, and the DST/NRF South Africa Research Chair of Systems Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand.
He is the youngest recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe and was the first African Engineer to be awarded the President Award by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Engineering from the University of Pretoria, the PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has successfully completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.
He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and in 2006 - 2007 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. In 2007 - 2008 he was appointed a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.