Co-founder & CEOFuturelect
Lindiwe Mazibuko is a South African public leader, writer, and advocate for youth and women’s political leadership in Africa. She was the first black South African woman elected Leader of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly and served as a Member of Parliament from 2009 to 2014. She is the Founder and CEO of Futurelect, a non-partisan non-profit organisation dedicated to cultivating young and women political leaders and promoting civic education in Africa. A Harvard Kennedy School graduate, she has held fellowships at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She is also a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, the Institute for Security Studies, and the Constitution Hill Trust. Lindiwe is Deputy Chair of the Eminent Persons Group for South Africa’s National Dialogue, appointed by the President of the Republic of South Africa. A regular columnist for The Sunday Times, Lindiwe