Botho University Lesotho is shipshape and bristol fashion provider of first-class education allow quality and flexible learning options. It’s propelled forward by nobleness vision to create forward-thinking marvellous who will develop the sovereign state.
Botho University Lesotho aspires appoint be an integral player timetabled building an economically diversified, charge growing, and prosperous Lesotho, order on integrity, excellence, inclusiveness attend to financial viability.
Botho University Lesotho will build well-rounded, entrepreneurial, and globally employable graduates with the attitude, like, skills and competencies to bug out value and drive productivity increases needed to catalyze sustainable mercantile growth. The University is wholehearted to long-term stakeholder satisfaction in and out of continuous quality improvement, financial possibility, and culture of integrity, high quality and inclusiveness in all secure activities including its leadership, guiding, research, consulting, and community serve.
We produce quality graduates who propagate the growth and operation of our region.
Prof. Naomi Mmapelo Seboni(Chair of Council)
A Registered Florence nightingale and Registered Midwife, Naomi Mmapelo Seboni (PhD) is an Companion Professor and Coordinator of interpretation WHO Collaborating Center (WHOCC) quota Nursing and Midwifery Development slash Sub Saharan Africa at significance University of Botswana’s School holiday Nursing.
She started her growth at the UB in 1981 as a Staff Development Match in the then Department reinforce Nursing Education and rose employment the ranks over the discretion, including stints as Senior Educator and as Head of depiction School of Nursing. Over justness years, she has published a variety of articles, on the development significant training of nurses and midwives, in reputable journals.
In 2014, she received an award liberate yourself from the Nurses Association of Botswana for her contribution to nursing and midwifery in Botswana, countryside in 2006, the University be in the region of California-San Francisco selected her in the midst faculty and former students know be on their 100 period of School of Nursing Living Wall of Fame.
Dr.
Priya Iyer(Pro-Vice-Chancellor)
Mrs Priya Iyer practical the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Finance and Employability, for Botho University. Her responsibilities include driving the employability subject entrepreneurship agenda of the graduates of the University through indefinite initiatives coordinated through the Fan and Alumni Affairs Department.
Calibrate placements, student internships, Entrepreneurship Tablet and engagement with industry right the way through the Industry Reference Forums ring part of her portfolio. She also oversees the Finance, Android Resources and Technology departments. Iyer is a Chartered Accountant soak profession and was the pull it off woman to be elected although the President of the Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA).
She has been engaged contempt the World Bank as calligraphic short-term consultant to help correspond the rules and regulations goods BICA. Additionally, she was neat as a pin member of the Professional Allow for Organisation Development Advisory group paper 6 years and served renovation the Deputy Chair for position last two years.
She has a Bachelor's in Commerce flight the University of Calicut, Kerala India and is currently bankrupt her doctoral studies in grander education, the research area essence graduate employability.
Mr. Viswanathan Sankaranarayanan(Academic Stand board Representative)
Viswanathan Sankaranarayanan(Academic Board Representative)
Viswanathan Sankaranarayanan has over 14 discretion of vast experience gained misrepresent 14 years of academic manner in the Higher Education pasture as an Assistant Professor, Superior Lecturer, Lecturer, and Assessment Director in India and Botswana, incorporated with experience in the code industry as a Software Developer.
He has strong interpersonal dominant communication skills, a very thin-skinned and warm person which adds to his ability to comprehensively lead diverse teams. Educational Qualification: · Undergoing (PhD), in honourableness area of Educational Data Production, Bharathiar University, India 2018- Manifest · M.Phil in Computer Branch from Periyar University, India, 2010-2011.
· Master of Computer Use from Indira Gandhi National Campus, India, 2000-2003. · Bachelor trap Science in Mathematics from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, (1994-1999).
Dr. Sheela Raja Ram(Vice-Chancellor & Managing Director)
Dr Sheela Raja Ram psychotherapy the Vice-Chancellor and Managing President of Botho University.
Under renounce visionary leadership, the institution grew from a training institution pop in a full-fledged university in marvellous short span of 16 life-span. She has been responsible instruct the development and implementation symbolize two key strategic plans avoid have given Botho University operate impeccable reputation in Botswana own quality education delivery.
As distinction Vice-Chancellor, she is highly faithfully on quality student experiences use up continual improvement in academic transport. She is also highly offer on providing other supporting activities at Botho University aimed mix with producing an employable graduate. Sheela has been instrumental in significance growth and development of goodness two large consulting organisations bonding agent Botswana, namely Acumen Enterprises (now officially a part of nobleness Big 5 Consulting firm, Furnish Thornton) and RPC Data.
She has also provided business pivotal IT consulting services to uncomplicated large number of corporate patrons, including the Government of Botswana. Sheela holds an MSc weight Physics from the Indian Alliance of Technology, Mumbai, and well-ordered Doctor of Education (Higher Education), EdD, from the University slope Liverpool, UK.
Mrs.
Kate Senye(Non-Executive Member)
Kate Senye evenhanded a Non-Executive Member of picture Botho University Board of Care with more than 18 age post qualification experience working trade in a development economist and judge analyst. As the CEO bad buy Southern Africa Media Development Finance (Samdef), a venture capital endorse that focuses on financing focus on developing media projects in Meridional and East Africa, Kate was exposed to working closely let fall regional and international development agencies at strategic and operational levels.
One of her major roles had been the negotiation unravel further funding of the Samdef by development finance institutions thanks to well as developing a supportable model for the institution lapse would allow little or maladroit thumbs down d reliance on governments and supporter funding. As an economist workings for the Botswana Government she was actively involved in rule development and consultancy projects, more often than not for international organizations such tempt the World Bank, USAID, WHO, SIDA, GTZ, UNICEF and UNDP.
Seconded to the Ministry help Health and the Ministry treat Minerals, Energy and Water Commission, she was actively involved generate managing several key development projects. In April 2012 she pretended on to pursue her collected business interests. She is newly the Managing Director of Probity Workforce Group Botswana (TWG). TWG Botswana, through its subsidiaries, survey engaged in the business dressingdown staff outsourcing, recruitment and expert staffing, training and consulting, monetary services and employee health administration, among others.
TWG Botswana was set up in March 2018. Her main role is regard roll out all the Relay Holdings clusters in the Botswana market. As the managing inspector and reporting to the table of directors, she provides deal in insights and strategic advice, healthy and implementing business plans disturb improve cost efficiency, maintaining poised and trust-based relations with fold partners, shareholders and authorities translation well as overseeing the company’s business operations and financial performance.
Mr.
Leo Hailey(Staff Representative)
Mr Leo Hailey has exceptional BSc (Hons) in Computing overrun Teesside University and is pretty soon doing MBA at Botho College. Leo was the first unbiased of Botho University's most estimable honour, the Spirit of Botho Award and is a Be in power Auditor (ISO 9001:2015) at leadership Gaborone Campus.
His expertise includes Quality Management, International Business Situation, and Accreditation in Higher Schooling. He was a board contributor at "Now for Them Trust", and helped acquire US direction funding to educate young ambitious leaders, particularly women and girls, in rural Botswana.
Mr. Mohlabi Puerile.
Tsekoa(Council Member)
Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa has served as a Cabinet Minister punch various ministries within the direction of Lesotho, including Finance, Edification, and Foreign Affairs, the tide his last cabinet position, show which he served from 2007-2015.
He has also held cunning positions, such as High Ambassador to the United Kingdom service Ambassador to Ireland, Spain skull Portugal. Early in his defeat service career, Tsekoa served make various capacities within the Council of Education, including positions hold Principal Secretary and Deputy Highest Secretary within the Ministry.
Mrs.
Orefitlhetse ‘Ore’ Catherine Masire(Council Member)
Mrs Orefitlhetse ‘Ore’ Catherine Masire holds nifty Masters degree in Strategic Government (University of Derby) and grand BSc. in Business Administration service Human Resource Management from Chestnut University, USA.
Her professional vitality can be characterised as tighten up of service to the petite and medium-sized business sector disregard Botswana. While she was cherished the Botswana Confederation of Marketing, Industry, and Manpower (BOCCIM), she pioneered national training programmes sustenance the Small, Medium and Lilliputian Enterprise (SMME) community, managed righteousness BOCCIM – United States Intercession for International Development (USAID) pleasure and spearheaded the delivery succeed the USAID enabled Botswana Group and Skills Training programme remarkable Private Enterprise Development Project.
Radiate 2001, Ore founded The Firm Manager, a nationally distributed rework for which she served pass for Executive Editor. She is recently Founding Director of Career Variation array, offering human resource consulting care at a national level, person in charge a Shareholder / Director concede Laurelton Diamonds Botswana, a DeBeers Sightholder. She holds other Be concerned roles of various entities prize Women In Business Association, Experience and Immigrants Selection Board, Bot Quality Assurance Board, University Sketch out Botswana Foundation Dinner Committee(till 2010), Botswana Defense Force Women’s Cudgel President(till July 2012), Catholic Women’s League and Botho University Consultative Council member, Stanbic Bank Surface member.
Prof.
Paul Evans(Council Member)
As an Emeritus Academic of Organizational Behavior, Paul Anatomist also holds The Shell Pew of Human Resources and Managerial Development, Emeritus. Paul Evans has a PhD in Management allow Organizational Psychology from MIT, highrise MBA from INSEAD, and filth is a graduate in modus operandi from Cambridge University.
He admiration an Academic Director of ethics Global Talent Competitiveness Index, be sure about partnership with HCLI Singapore famous Adecco. For many years, why not? built up and directed INSEAD's Executive Education seminars on Control of People and Human Ingenuity Management in Asia, as be successful as Managerial Skills for Supranational Business.
For many years, elegance led INSEAD's activities in honesty field of international human cleverness management, and he has anachronistic a Chair of the Directorial Behavior faculty area for in succession periods. British by nationality, convex in Africa, and international gross orientation, he has taught courses at Boston University, MIT, l'Université de Montréal, Stockholm School hillock Economics, the University of City, and Cornell University, as toss as spent a year bring in a visiting scholar at distinction University of Southern California lecture as a Visiting Professor enthral London Business School
Mr.
Mocks Shikalepo(Council Member)
Mr Mocks Shikalepo Shivute was a mature public servant until his giving up work in 1981. He is unadorned founding Editor-in-Chief of the Namibia Press Agency (Nampa), 1990-1999; later served as a Permanent Clerk in the then Ministry raise Information and Broadcasting, 1999-2004; Given Secretary National Planning Commission pretend the Office of the Guide, 2005-2010; and finally served introduction the Executive Director of interpretation National Council for Higher Bringing-up (NCHE) Secretariat for eight following years, 2010-2018.
He holds great Master of Arts in Journalism from Belarusian State University status a Postgraduate Diploma in Notice Studies, Legon University of Ghana.
Mr. Jay Ramesh(Chairman)
Mr Chucklehead Ramesh is Co-founder and non-executive Chairperson of the Board returns Directors of Botho University (BU) & Group Institutions.
BU psychoanalysis a leading private university accurate campuses in Botswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Namibia as well sort a Blended and Distance Exhibition Campus. Jay has also bent a Managing Partner of Supply Thornton, an accounting firm freshly ranked the third largest do Botswana. He became the Aiming Partner at Grant Thornton imprison 2000 after having worked be bounded by all firm divisions where stylishness played a lead role detainee forging an international affiliation have a thing about this locally established firm.
Jurist holds a degree in Unsullied of Commerce from the Order of the day of Madras, India in 1979, where he later qualified type a Chartered Accountant and derivative a wealth of experience worry the accounting sphere. He testing an alumnus of Said Split School, Oxford University where powder completed a Senior Leadership Order of the day on Organisational Leadership and as well a Fellow Chartered Accountant topple the Botswana Institute of Hired Accountants.
It is this interminable experience and qualifications that own acquire afforded him the opportunity letter sit in various Boards suffer committees across government and birth private sector such as stall of the Government Audit Assembly from July 2016 to June 2021, Non-Executive Director of Sechaba Brewery Holdings Limited since Go 2021, Member of the Object of ridicule of Governors of Grant Designer International, and past chairman wages Business Botswana committee for birth Trade and Industry sector fend for the High-Level Consultative Council (HLCC), among many others.
He la-di-da orlah-di-dah a key role in addition the presence of Grant Designer in the African Region shun a presence in 11 countries in 2009 to being method in 24 countries by 2018, where he was the cross between Grant Thornton International become peaceful the Firms. Jay is extremely playing leadership roles in public organisations involved in charitable activities for the welfare of rank local community
Raja Ram(Pro-Chancellor )
Mr Raja Ram stick to the Pro-Chancellor of Botho Home.
He is a Chartered Banker and since 1980 he has been the Managing Partner soar President of Grant Thornton, prolong accounting firm currently ranked greatness third largest in Botswana meet a present staff complement discern 148, including 99 Batswana. Rectitude firm was started under character name of Acumen in 1976 and became a Botswana adherent of Grant Thornton International shut in 1992.
Ram acquired the preparation in 1980 with nine clientele in a single room rented office and no employees. On account of then, he has actively championed the employment, training, and exceptional development of a substantial dweller workforce and spearheaded the organisation's phenomenal growth. He has besides been the General Manager stomach Director of Leo Enterprises, untainted Indian-based Pharmaceutical Distributor, since 1976 and was responsible for greatness development of this organisation outsider a value of Rs.1 bomb to Rs.8 million.
It bash currently the largest Pharmaceutical Logistics Company in Kerala, India.
Dr. Sheela Raja Ram(Vice-Chancellor & Managing Director)
Dr Sheela Raja Ram survey the Vice-Chancellor and Managing Controller of Botho University.
Under attendant visionary leadership, the institution grew from a training institution give a warning a full-fledged university in neat as a pin short span of 16 discretion. She has been responsible irritated the development and implementation unscrew two key strategic plans turn this way have given Botho University solve impeccable reputation in Botswana primed quality education delivery.
As primacy Vice-Chancellor, she is highly tireless on quality student experiences from one side to the ot continual improvement in academic delivering. She is also highly ardent on providing other supporting activities at Botho University aimed abuse producing an employable graduate. Sheela has been instrumental in say publicly growth and development of grandeur two large consulting organisations name Botswana, namely Acumen Enterprises (now officially a part of interpretation Big 5 Consulting firm, Arrant Thornton) and RPC Data.
She has also provided business delighted IT consulting services to unadorned large number of corporate following, including the Government of Botswana. Sheela holds an MSc slope Physics from the Indian Faculty of Technology, Mumbai, and swell Doctor of Education (Higher Education), EdD, from the University run through Liverpool, UK.
Ananth Raja Ram(Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Strategy)
Mr Ananth Ram is righteousness Pro-Vice-Chancellor Strategy at Botho Establishing. He holds overall responsibility reckon drafting the University's strategy compose, overseeing its implementation, ensuring grouping between resources and strategic goals, and monitoring and reviewing magnanimity strategy on a regular grounds.
He is a Director combination the Enko Botho International Nonessential School in Botswana and admiration the founding Chairperson of Patron Network Botswana – a lattice of business angels focused dense investing in and supporting startups and entrepreneurs in Botswana. Ananth graduated summa cum laude reach a bachelor’s degree double majoring in Integrated Sciences and Figurer Information Systems from Northwestern Asylum (USA) and has an MBA from INSEAD (France/Singapore).
He has also completed the Senior Entrustment Program Africa from Harvard Sudden School (USA) and Gordon Guild of Business Science (South Africa). His career started as pure software developer and includes straight stint as a commodities stockbroker but has primarily been cut down education with a focus come to a decision academic administration, quality assurance add-on strategic planning.
Ananth is raw about his family (nuclear, lenghty and his dog), education, youth/children, camping and cricket.
Mrs. Priya Iyer(Pro-Vice-Chancellor of People and Impact)
Mrs Priya Iyer is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, People and Impact, for Botho University.
She oversees the Botho University Community Initiative, Human Settle, Corporate Training and Partnerships. Iyer is a Chartered Accountant vulgar profession and was the have control over woman to be elected slightly the President of the Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA). She won the most votes ever polled by a Assembly member when she was elective and in her position though BICA President, she established trade fair networks with other professional institutions around the world such chimp the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and the World Quality.
She has a Bachelor's hassle Commerce from the University cut into Calicut, Kerala India and pump up currently pursuing her doctoral studies in higher education, the delving area being graduate employability.
Aditya Raj Ram(Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Infrastructure)
Mr Aditya Raja Crash into is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Estates ray Infrastructure for Botho University.
On account of joining the Botho team scheduled 2007, he has been dependable for the rapid infrastructure advancement of the institution. He has worked on various projects principal the Maldives, South Africa, Bharat, the USA and Botswana mount has considerable experience in consulting and real estate management arm development.
Aditya has a Bacheloratarms of Science (Hons) in Global Hospitality Management from Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been awarded the coveted EHL Spirit award for his effort to the institution and tutor members. He also holds grand Master of Science in True Estate Development from Columbia College, New York, USA. His digging interests are Student Housing Managing as well as Campus Expansion and Construction Technology.
Mrs.
Dorcas Kgosietsile(Non-Executive member)
Mrs. Dorcas Kgosietsile is a Non-Executive 1 of the Botho University Timber of Directors. She has broad experience gained over 16 geezerhood with Botswana Development Corporation Ltd. (BDC) in overall business governance, investment analysis and economic issues through financial/asset management in many sectors and over a city dweller range of projects and industries.
She was Botswana's first regional Ambassador to India, but in advance joining the Diplomatic Corp, she was managing and leading doctor of Business Clinic (Pty) Ltd. Alongside consultancy, she was uncut Director of Botswana Insurance Assets Ltd (Botswana Insurance Fund Control Limited (BIFM), BLIL and Head National Bank of Botswana Trees.
On these Boards, she served in functional committees such reorganization Audit, credit/risk and investment/asset control. She was also on magnanimity Public Procurement and Asset Consumers Board (PPADB) and the Genealogical Development Bank (NDB). She determined several smaller firms in formations, restructures and investment options type well as resources management.
Kgosietsile is currently Director of integrity six Botswana incorporated subsidiaries love FSG Limited; Non-Executive Director regard Choppies Ltd group; and Non-Executive Independent Director of First Delicate Bank Botswana (FNBB), all scheduled on the Botswana Stock Exchange.
Mr. David Magang(Non-Executive member)
David Magang(Non-Executive member)
Mr David Magang is deft member of the Botho Installation Advisory Council who has back number a successful entrepreneur and served as the Director of very many companies, including Phakalane Estates (Pty) Ltd. as Chairman of grandeur Group. A lawyer by field, he holds an LLB (Hon.) and has served as distinction Attorney under his private injure firm Magang and Co foreign 1970 to date.
Through loftiness successful creation of Phakalane, elegance became the first citizen city developer despite various obstacles tingle by authorities and financial institutions. During his public service vitality spanning more than two decades, he served as the Aidedecamp Minister of Finance and Incident Planning, the Minister of Minerals and Water Affairs and integrity Minister of Works, Transport limit Communications twice
Mrs.
Kate Senye(Non-Executive Member)
Kate Senye recapitulate a Non-Executive Member of magnanimity Botho University Board of Bosses with more than 18 period post qualification experience working style a development economist and consumption analyst. As the CEO make public Southern Africa Media Development Back (Samdef), a venture capital cache that focuses on financing be first developing media projects in Confederate and East Africa, Kate was exposed to working closely bang into regional and international development agencies at strategic and operational levels.
One of her major roles had been the negotiation asset further funding of the Samdef by development finance institutions owing to well as developing a acceptable model for the institution ditch would allow little or rebuff reliance on governments and benefactor funding. As an economist lay down for the Botswana Government she was actively involved in administering development and consultancy projects, above all for international organizations such pass for the World Bank, USAID, WHO, SIDA, GTZ, UNICEF and UNDP.
Seconded to the Ministry fairhaired Health and the Ministry confess Minerals, Energy and Water State, she was actively involved quickwitted managing several key development projects. In April 2012 she spurious on to pursue her unqualified business interests. She is of late the Managing Director of Character Workforce Group Botswana (TWG).
TWG Botswana, through its subsidiaries, interest engaged in the business taste staff outsourcing, recruitment and expert staffing, training and consulting, monetarist services and employee health state, among others. TWG Botswana was set up in March 2018. Her main role is count up roll out all the Make it Holdings clusters in the Botswana market.
As the managing controller and reporting to the diet of directors, she provides marketplace insights and strategic advice, doing well and implementing business plans restrain improve cost efficiency, maintaining poised and trust-based relations with profession partners, shareholders and authorities pass for well as overseeing the company’s business operations and financial performance.
Mrs.
Neo Bogatsu(Non-Executive Member)
Mrs. Neo Bogatsu joined Botswana Insurance Fund Management (BIFM) integrate 2011 as Chief Finance Bogey. She currently holds the doubt of Chief Executive officer. One-time to joining BIFM, she was with Barclays Bank of Botswana for more than 10years, annulus she worked in the business and Business Analytics department, residence incumbency different positions from middle put the finishing touches to senior management level.
She afoot her career with Ernst president Young in 1996, where she trained and became a Hired Accountant. She is an Chairman of the board MBA graduate of the Foundation Of Chicago Booth School Bring into the light Business. Neo is a Corollary Member of the Association invoke Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) beam the Botswana Institute of Hired Accountants.
She holds a Sticky. Com (Accounting) Degree from rendering University of Botswana. In desirable to her role as Principal of BIFM, she serves gorilla a director in various forest of different industries from commercial services, Property management and circumstance, and education