Prof Tshilidzi Marwala

Prof Tshilidzi Marwala

Prof Tshilidzi Marwala

Rector of the United Nations University

Prof Marwala has been a visiting scholar/professor at universities in the USA, the UK, China and South Africa. He has extensive academic, policy, management, and international experience, and is a co-holder of five patents. His research has been multidisciplinary, involving the theory and applications of artificial intelligence to engineering, social science, economics, politics, finance and medicine. He has served on a variety of global and national policymaking bodies and has worked with such United Nations entities as UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO and WIPO. Prof. Marwala is, inter alia, a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Science of South Africa, and the African Academy of Sciences. Among the awards that Prof Marwala has received are the Order of Mapungubwe (South Africa’s highest honour) and the Academy of South Africa’s Science-for-Society Gold Medal. He was named the 2021 IT Personality of the Year by the Institute of IT Professionals South Africa.