Dr Farai Kapfudzaruwa is the Research and Strategic Partnerships Manager at Future Africa, University of Pretoria. He previously worked as a Grants and Partnerships Specialist in the Department of Research and Innovation, where he facilitated global partnerships through the African Global University Project (AGUP).

Prior to joining UP, he served as a programme coordinator for the Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) initiative at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) in Tokyo, Japan. Dr Kapfudzaruwa also worked as an Old Mutual Emerging Markets lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. He holds a PhD in Business and Political Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.