I am the Director for Multilateral Cooperation at the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in South Africaa. I am a former senior science and technology representative of the DST in Tokyo, Japan for more than five years. I am also the former head for the DST Official Development Assistance (ODA) Directorate, now called Development Partnerships. I have been working in the public sector for more than ten years and before then I consulted for the public and private sector.