Thabiso Mashaba

Thabiso Mashaba is a Strategist, Cultural Economist, Policy Maker, Development Practitioner and Social Entrepreneur . He is the co-founder and CEO of These Hands GSSE based in Botswana and New Zealand; Former Chairperson of the Botswana Human Resource Development Council’s Creative Industries Sector Committee; Member of the Global IDIN/IDDS Steering committee based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab; Advisory Board Chairperson of YSAT Uganda and YSAT South Sudan; Co-Founder and Project Coordinator of the IDIN Southern Africa Consortium; Founding Member of the Southern Africa Innovation Collective Management Team; Former member of the Project Working Team for the Merger of the Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub (BDIH) and the Botswana Institute of Technology, Research and Innovation (BITRI) ; an International fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship of the New Zealand Government; and a 2022 Science Engagement Category Winner of the Falling Walls Global Competition.