Catherine A Odora Hoppers is Extraordinarius Professor at the University of South Africa and Founder & Director: Global Institute of Applied Governance in Science and Innovation. A Forum for Strategic Dialogue among Knowledge Systems (Gulu, Uganda). She was the DST/NRF SARChI Research Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa. She was a technical adviser on Indigenous Knowledge Systems to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (South Africa) and led the Task Team to draft the national policy on Indigenous Knowledge Systems. She was a Distinguished Professional at the Human Sciences Research Council; an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria; a visiting Professor at Stockholm University (Sweden); Scientific Coordinator and Campus Director for the Council for the Development of Social Science in Africa (CODESRIA) Annual Social Science Campus (2006); and a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from Orebro University (Sweden), and an Honorary Doctorate in Education from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. She was formerly a member of the International Faculty of the United Nations International Leadership Academy (Amman-Jordan) and is a member of the Academy of Science Special Panel on the Future of Humanities. She serves as Co-Director and member of the Board of the PASCAL International Observatory (initiated by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development Countries (OECD)). She is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).
