Bio
Prof. Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi is a globally recognized researcher, boundary spanner, and science advocate, working on complex water, energy, food and environmental systems at the interface of science, policy, and society. He has a track record of scientific leadership, capacity building and building partnerships needed to achieve outcomes and impacts from research, development and innovation. His goal is to work on research and development that informs policy, equality and transformation in Africa (and beyond).
He is a Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of the Institute for Natural Resources (NPC) in South Africa, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. He is also the Lead – Water, Energy, Food and Environment (WEFE) Nexus at the United Nations University – Institute for Water Environment and Health. Previously, he was the Research Group Leader for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems at the International Water Management Institute and the Director of the Centre for Transformative Agricultural and Food Systems at UKZN. He holds strategic roles in various advisory committees and panels and is an editor of several high-impact journals.
He holds a B.Sc. Agriculture Honours in Crop Science from the University of Zimbabwe, M.Sc. in Agric. Crop Science and PhD in Crop Science from UKZN. He has experience in research, development, capacity building and building partnerships across academia, public and private sectors, civil society, and communities. Tafadzwa has experience initiating, developing, leading and carrying out research for development on sustainable food systems, global environmental change and the water-energy-food nexus using multi- and transdisciplinary approaches. He has experience with project development, including donor engagement, applying good project management practices, and disseminating research results to key knowledge users and constituencies.