Associate Professor Kagiso “TK” Pooe is a senior lecturer focusing on five specialist Public Policy themes.

Firstly, Local Economic Development which focuses on initiatives, policies, and strategies implemented within a specific municipal region in order enhance and advance economic development. Secondly, Law and Development a field that examines the intersection of legal systems, institutions, and socio-economic development.

Thirdly, Futures Planning and Thinking, which focuses on crafting policy decisions that attempt to ascertain what future public policy and institutional ideas can be used to address given and yet to be defined problems. Fourthly, Failure Analysis which investigates why policies don’t achieve their intended goals or produce unexpected negative outcomes. Fifthly, National Interest study which examines and tries to understand the fundamental goals and objectives of the State in various foreign related policy aims and objectives.

Over the last ten years he has lectured and consulted for various institutions like the North-West University’s Government Studies in the Vaal campus, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College), Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria) and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Before joining academia on a fulltime basis, he worked as a Public Policy research consultant at the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and researcher for Integrated Development Planning Unit at the Sedibeng District Municipality.

Outside his professional life he is former National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow, a 2019 Managing Global Governance Fellow of the Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik and has served as a Board Member at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in his hometown of Evaton (Vaal). He is a South African and Smooth Jazz, old school RnB enthusiast and is an aspirant squash player.