About me
Dr Jennifer Molwantwa was born and bred in Kagiso Township,Mogale City in the Province of Gauteng in South Africa. She hasextensive experience in water resource management and have worked in the private sector (Digby Wells Environmental), government funding entity (Water Research Commission) and Inkomati-Usuthu Catchment Management Agency (IUCMA). She hasserved on several boards (IUCMA, the council of the University of KwaZulu Natal, Water Institute of Southern Africa and theEnvironmental Assessment Practitioners Association of SouthAfrica). She is also a member of the Department of Fisheries Forestryand the Environment (DFFE) Sub-Committee appointed to developthe National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the management of chemicals in South Africa.
She holds a PhD: Biotechnology and a Postgraduate Diploma inEnterprise Management from Rhodes University. A RegisteredProfessional Natural Scientist (Pr. Sci. Nat.) with SACNASP who amember of the Institute of Directors SA (IoDSA) is also. She competed the International Executive Development Program offered jointly by WitsBusiness School and the London School of Business.
Dr Molwantwa served as a Commissioner on the on the 1st National Planning Commission (2010-2015), an advisory body to thePresident, that developed the National Development Plan (NDP) andVision 2030 for the Republic of South Africa. Her passion is capacitybuilding, skills development, and inclusion of Historically Disadvantaged Individuals (HDI) in the mainstream science andtechnology careers and economy of which water and land areintegral. She believes: “the way for women to participate at all levels of the economy, science and technology, knowledge generation and business depends on the opportunities created by women before them”.