Advocate Louisa Zondo

Advocate Zondo has worked as a General Counsel at South African Airways for 5 years.

She currently serves as Chair at Barloworld Empowerment Foundation. She previously served as head of secretariat for the National Education Crisis Forum; CEO of the Public Protector South Africa; CEO of the Bertha Gxowa Foundation; general manager: Legal at Sasol; general counsel at SAA; CEO of the National Nuclear Regulator; secretary to the PrepCom of the CTBTO in Vienna; CEO of the SAHRC and deputy executive director of the Constitutional Assembly Secretariat. She also held non-executive roles at the National Research Foundation and National Advisory Council on Innovation.

Louisa holds an LLB from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, an LLM in public law from the London School of Economics, and a BProc from the University of Limpopo. She has always had a strong enthusiasm for education and how it can change people’s lives, particularly the lives of women and children.