Visiting Adjunct Professor Busani Ngcaweni is the Director General of the National School of Government since
March 2020. Before that he was the Head of Policy and
Research Services in The Presidency. He was previously
Chief of Staff to President and Deputy President Cyril
Ramaphosa since 2014. 

He also served as Chief of Staff to Deputy Presidents since 2007, having joined the
Policy Unit in The Presidency as Senior Policy Analyst since 2005. He was Senior
Programme Manager and later Director at Umsobomvu Youth Fund. He is a graduate
of the University of Durban-Westville, the University of Natal and UNISA. He is Senior
Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and Visiting Adjunct Professor at
Wits School of Governance and Soochow University (China). His latest co-edited book
with Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni is titled, The Contested Idea of South Africa (Routledge,
2022).