STIAS is registered in South Africa as a Section 21 company (2017014516/08) with public benefit status. It is governed by a Board of Directors.

Board of Directors

Morné du Plessis

Morné du Plessis

Chair of STIAS' Board of Directors; CEO of the South Africa chapter of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Zodwa Dlamini

Zodwa Dlamini

Founding Director, Pan African Cancer Research Institute (PACRI), University of Pretoria

Bernard C Lategan

Bernard C Lategan

STIAS Founding Director

Mosibudi Mangena

Mosibudi Mangena

Former South African Minister of Science and Technology

Deresh Ramjugernath

Deresh Ramjugernath

Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Stellenbosch University

Göran Sandberg

Göran Sandberg

Director, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Ingrid Sundström

Ingrid Sundström

Vice Executive Director, Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

Edward K. Kirumira

Edward K. Kirumira

Director of STIAS


Academic Advisory Committee

  • Francis Nyamnjoh (Chair), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town
  • Ahmed Bawa, Johannesburg Business School
  • Mamadou Diawara, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and Director of Point Sud, Bamako
  • Göran Hansson, Experimental Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet
  • Hendrik B Geyer, former STIAS Director
  • Nina Jablonski, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
  • Thokozani Majozi, SA Research Chair in Sustainable Process Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand and President of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
  • Malebogo Ngoepe, Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM), University of Cape Town
  • Louise Viljoen, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University
  • Edward K Kirumira, STIAS Director

Fellowship and Research Programme Committee

  • Edward K Kirumira, STIAS Director
  • Hendrik B Geyer, former STIAS Director
  • Nokwanda Makunga, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University
  • Louis Jonker, Department of Old and New Testament, Stellenbosch University
  • Francis Nyamnjoh, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town
  • Louise Viljoen, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University

Extended Committee

Together with the members of the Fellowship and Research Programme Committee, the following members form the Extended Fellowship and Research Programme Committee:

  • Danie Visser, Faculty of Law (Emeritus), University of Cape Town
  • Bernard Lategan, STIAS Founding Director
  • Grace Musila, Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand
  • Bill Nasson, History Department, Stellenbosch University
  • Maxi Schoeman, Department of Political Science, University of Pretoria