Samukelisiwe Mnguni

Samukelisiwe Mnguni

South Africa

"I am most interested in how we can change our human behaviors to have a more positive impact on the natural environment that feeds us and houses us."

Samukelisiwe is a sustainable development postgraduate student who is also a certified digital finance professional with over 11 years of experience in a combination of both environments (sustainability and fintech). She has worked in the NGO space since 2011 in various senior management roles. She is enterprising and enjoys solving complex issues where social ills can be changed through innovative and integrated thinking. The ocean economy excites her as she believes there is still much to explore and understand about this ecosystem and how it relates to us as humans who greatly benefit from it.