Introduction
Dr. Elizabeth Rasekoala is the President of African Gong: The Pan-African Network for the Popularization of Science & Technology and Science Communication. She is Editor of the influential book, "Race and Sociocultural Inclusion in Science Communication: Innovation, Decolonisation, and Transformation." Elizabeth with a professional background in Chemical Engineering, has researched, presented and written widely on public innovation and transformative development through advancing diversity, sociocultural inclusion, race and gender equality issues in science communication and STEM education.
Expert
Dr. Rasekoala has provided extensive advisory and consultancy expertise to various governments and agencies in the Global North and South, and to multilateral international organisations over the past 20 years, including the European Commission, the UNCHR, UNECA, UNESCO, the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank. She has been internationally recognised for her innovative, dynamic advocacy and transformative practice, with various awards, the most recent being the International NAT AWARD for Science Communication-conferred by the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona, in 2019.
Fields of expertise: Communication and information/ICTs, Education, Gender equality, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Monitoring and evaluation, Science policy, technology and innovation policy