Mr Mikatekiso Kubayi is a researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue associated with UNISA (IGD). He is also a fellow at the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as well as a PhD Candidate, also at UJ. He is an avid researcher on Power and its dynamics in the international system and specialises in the global political economy of finance. The title of his PhD research is ‘The Role of the NDB as a Development Finance Institution in Support of the BRICS Reform and Development Agenda’. He previously worked as Political Advisor