Leadership & governance

Who leads APEA, and how it is governed.

APEA is a non-profit company registered in South Africa (2025/675966/08), founded on 10 April 2025 and the operational arm of the Pedagogical Science Institute.

Leadership

The people accountable for APEA and AFSI 2027.

Kabelo Mbuyisa-Seonyane

Founding Convener, APEA · Executive Convenor, AFSI 2027

Kabelo convenes the African Future Skills Indaba and serves on APEA's Board of Trustees. He is the Founding President of the Pedagogical Science Institute. He studied education at the Wits School of Education and African Studies at the University of Oxford, where he is a Rhodes Scholar.

Governance

APEA President

Leads oversight and governance on behalf of the Board of Trustees. To be announced.

Operations

Executive Director

Leads APEA's executive operations, working alongside the President.

How APEA is governed

Oversight, direction and delivery, kept separate.

Board of TrusteesUltimate accountability for APEA. Sets direction and approves budgets.

PresidentOversight and governance on behalf of the Board

Executive DirectorExecutive operations

Programmes and pillarsResearch, consultancy, training and the seven pillars

AFSI 2027APEA's founding flagship convening

AFSI 2027 governance

Three tiers, so no one marks their own homework.

Tier 1

APEA Board oversight

Ultimate accountability. Receives monthly financial reports and approves major budget changes. It oversees the conference but does not manage it.

Tier 2

AFSI Steering Committee

Seven to nine unpaid members giving strategic oversight, advice on selection and quality assurance of every output. Members are named in every published output.

Tier 3

Core planning team

Led by the Executive Convenor, with programme, operations, partnerships, finance, communications and digital marketing leads.

Steering Committee seats

Chairperson
Two academic quality members, one Anglophone and one Francophone
Employer sector member
Civil society member
Youth representative member
Policy and government member
Fundraising and development advisor

Members will be announced here as appointments are confirmed.

The AFSI core team

Eight people run the day-to-day planning of AFSI 2027, led by the Executive Convenor. You'll find each of them, and how to reach them, in the team section below.

Meet the team

The team