Lindiwe Mazibuko

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Lindiwe Mazibuko is a South African public leader, writer, and academic fellow. She was the first black woman in South African history to be elected Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. Ms Mazibuko is the co-founder and CEO of Futurelect, a non-partisan organisation supporting a new generation of political and public sector leaders in Africa. Ms Mazibuko was an elected representative in South Africa’s National Assembly until May 2014, when she resigned from active politics in order to return to higher education. A graduate of the University of Cape Town and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, she has served as a fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. Currently, Ms Mazibuko is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader as well as a Fisher Family Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs.