Dr. Showers Mawowa

Dr Showers Mawowa is SALO’s Deputy Director, based in the Pretoria Office. He is a member of the International Experts Panel (IEP) at the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM). Showers holds a Ph.D in Development Studies (2013) and Masters in Economic History (2007) both from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and is an alumnus of the African Program on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE). Dr Mawowa’s expertise include extractives governance, development economics, political economy and South Africa’s Foreign Policy. He has written and published several articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, commissioned research papers and opinion pieces in print media as well as peer reviewed for academic journals. Showers has taught politics, political economy and development studies at Universities in South Africa, researched and campaigned for pro-poor economic policy, participated in local and international advocacy on public debt, aid effectiveness and development co-operation. He has been involved with global platforms such as UN SDGs, AU Agenda 2063, OGP, the EITI and Kimberley Process inter alia as a policy researcher and campaigner.