Professor Bongani Ncube is a water and agricultural scientist based at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. She has more than 25 years of experience in mainstream research and non-profits. She started as a government ecologist in 1995, then joined the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) as a Scientific Officer in 2000, a position in which she later obtained her PhD with Wageningen University & Research in 2007. She then joined the Southern and East Africa regional network, WaterNet, leading the multidisciplinary Limpopo Basin Challenge Program on Water and Food Project 17. Prof Ncube worked for non-profits in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2012. She came to South Africa in early 2013, where she is pursuing research on water governance, water resource management, soil fertility management, drought impacts on agriculture and indigenous knowledge. Prof Ncube is also a postgraduate supervisor. She is a registered Professional Natural Scientist and a member of the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) and the Soil Science Society of South Africa (SSSSA). She is an international panel reviewer for the National Research Foundation (NRF), the Water Research Commission, and various international journals. She is an Editorial Board Member of the Water SA Journal.
