Nomsa Masuku

Nomsa Masuku is an academic, activist and educator who currently is appointed as the Electoral Commission’s Deputy Chief Electoral Officer responsible for Outreach. She previously headed Standard Bank’s Corporate Social Investment Unit. Before joining Standard Bank, Dr Masuku spent eight years working for the Electoral Commission of South Africa, where her portfolio included the strategic development of programmes that assisted the Commission in contributing to the entrenchment of constitutional democracy – including overseeing the provision and promotion of voter and balloting education.

Dr Masuku has a PhD in Applied English Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, UK. She has taught at university level. She has also worked with a number of women’s groups including Women and the Law in South Africa, and the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse.

Dr Masuku has a varied and eclectic range of interests including education, development issues, democracy and governance, policy development and implementation, and the personal development of women professionals.

Dr Masuku was named the top Strategic Leadership Programme (SLP) student for 2005, an initiative of the International Women’s Forum South Africa run in partnership with the Gordon Institute of Business Science.