Ms Maphefo Keafisha Ernestina Mogodi

Director of the Women in Engineering and the Built Environment programme at the University of Johannesburg, building pipelines to attract, support and retain women across engineering and the built environment. She is Deputy Chairperson of the Council for the Built Environment, the body coordinating six professional councils reporting to the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, and has served as its Acting Council Chairperson. On the Department’s Women Empowerment Advisory Committee she chairs the Research, Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation Subcommittee, where she initiated the Women Owned Entities database under the SABTACO umbrella, supporting the Minister’s 30% procurement target for women. She serves as a Board Director and Strategic Programme Manager of SABTACO.