Ms Namhla Mniki is a global development strategist leading African Monitor, an entity working to eradicate poverty, to create economic opportunities, and to empower African citizens to drive the achievement of sustainable development in Africa.

Ms. Mniki specialises in citizen-centric approaches to development that promote accountable leadership and good governance.  Her latest work focusses on increasing knowledge of, and building capacity for co-creation and collaboration across sectors to implement the SDGs. She has a strong belief that a new paradigm of development delivery can benefit the world, focusing on innovation, collaboration, multi-sectoralism, co-creation, and broad participation.  She is a Patron for the Africa Youth SDGs Summit, a Global Peer Review Expert for the German Sustainability Strategy, and a member of the expert group for the Africa Progress Group,

Namhla is also a leadership strategist, supporting emerging leaders in Africa to leverage their personal power, values and skills to transform their work environments, their communities and Africa.  Through her social enterprise KB Media & Communications, she runs value-based leadership coaching programmes, as well as high-impact development campaigns across Africa, including the BigSisAfrica programme.