Lindiwe Mazibuko

Biography

Lindiwe Mazibuko is a South African public leader, writer, and academic fellow. She was the first black South African in the country’s history to be elected Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. Lindiwe is the founder and CEO of Futurelect, a non-partisan organisation supporting a new generation of political leaders and active citizens in Africa.

A graduate of the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in the United States, Lindiwe was an elected representative in South Africa's National Assembly until May 2014, when she resigned from active politics to return to higher education.

Lindiwe has been a fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. She is a WEF Young Global Leader, a fellow of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a trustee of the Institute for Security Studies and the Constitution Hill Trust.