Thuli Madonsela

Professor Thuli Madonsela is a professor of law occupying the Law Trust Research Chair in Social
Justice at Stellenbosch University. She is also the founder of the Thuma Foundation for Democracy
Leadership and Literacy and a Member of the African Academy of Sciences. The former Public
Protector of South Africa and full-time Law Commissioner, Professor Madonsela was one of the
drafters of the South African Constitution and a co-architect and drafter of several constitutionallymandated laws, including the Equality Act, Employment Equity Act and Promotion of Administrative
Justice Act. She has an extensive background in applied constitutional and administrative law
principles mainly based on her public service years and her investigation of improper conduct in state
affairs as Public Protector. She helped draft several international human rights instruments and
country reports. She currently teaches Constitutional Law, Social Justice Law, Administrative Law,
and Constitutional Governance and Ethical Leadership and has written and published extensively on
these matters. An advocate of the High Court of South Africa and honorary member of the Botswana
Bar, Professor Madonsela holds eight honorary law doctorates in addition to her normal law degrees
and over 70 awards. Professor Madonsela is a mother of two and in her free time, an avid
mountaineer who has summited Mt Kilimanjaro twice under the #Trek4Mandela campaign and for
the Social Justice M-Plan and regularly hikes for the #Action4Inclusion campaign, a quest to end
student debt.