About me
Dr Dorothy Ngila advances her career at South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) as a director in the Business Advancement division. She co-ordinates the NRF’s contribution to the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in sub-Saharan Africa and advances the NRF’s engagement in regional and global knowledge networks. She is interested in institutional capacity strengthening in Africa (with a focus on scientific institutions), how scientific boundary organisations interface science and policy (with a focus on academies of science and public funding agencies) and integrating gender and intersectionality in science (with a focus on women).Dr Ngila has extensive experience as a programme and research management leader. Examples of large and complex research programmes she has co-led are the Covid-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund (CARGF), the O.R. Tambo Africa Research Chairs Initiative (ORTARChI), and the u’GOOD research programme on young people and relational wellbeing in the Global South. Dr Ngila serves on the Advisory Board of the Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) and on the Global Research Council (GRC) Executive Support Group.She has previously served as both a co-chair and member of the GRC Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Working Group, and is a past chair of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) South African National Chapter. Dr Ngila holds a PhD (Science and Technology Studies) from Stellenbosch University.