Mosekama Osia Mokhele

Mosekama Osia Mokhele is an emerging scholar and lecturer in the Department of Public Management and Leadership and a Research Associate at the Raymond Mhlaba Centre for Governance and Leadership at Nelson Mandela University. He holds an Master’s of Arts in Public Management and Policy Analysis and master’s degree in governance and political Transformation from the International University of Japan and the University of the Free State, respectively. The scholar is a joint doctoral candidate majoring in Disaster Management from the University of the Free State (UFS) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). His central research focuses on the decentralisation of disaster management, legislation and policies, and disaster inclusivity and participation, which cuts across central-local coordination, stakeholder collaboration, and subjective disaster preparedness of the marginalised populations.