Professor Pontŝo Moorosi is a FALF-WBS-WDB Full Professor and Research Chair in Gender Equality at Wits Business School (WBS). She is an internationally recognised thought leader in gender equality and educational leadership, and has authored and co-authored more than 50 publications, including books, book chapters and journal articles. She is increasingly invited to deliver keynote addresses and has spoken at international conferences in South Africa, Kenya, Canada and the United Kingdom. Her research examines gender and leadership, with a particular focus on how organisational practices and policies shape leader identity formation and leadership opportunities and development, especially among Black and minoritised women. Her publications include the co-edited Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Educational Leadership (2022), the first handbook of its kind, and Leadership through the Lens of Whiteness and Intersectionality (2025).
Professor Moorosi holds a PhD in Gender in Educational Leadership from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Before joining WBS, she served as Associate Professor at the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is actively engaged in international scholarly communities through professional associations, editorial work and peer review. She is a member of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS), where she previously served as a trustee and co-founded and co-convenes the Gender in Leadership Research Interest Group. She is also a core member of the Women Leading Education Across Continents Network, a global network of researcher addressing the underrepresentation of women in educational leadership.
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