Lerato Mbele

Lerato has participated at the World Economic Forum as a media leader and has spoken and moderated debates at the WEF-Africa; the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Washington DC; the African Development Bank; Mining Indaba; UN Climate Change Talks COP-17 and hosted a variety of televised presidential debates for the Nigerian Economic Summit Group in Abuja-Nigeria.

She has been nominated twice for the Desmond Tutu Fellowship on Leadership, but due to work commitments has not been able to take up the fellowship to Oxford.

Lerato has been named an Ambassador for Change by the Southern African Trust.

In pop-culture, she has been voted one of the Top-100 South Africans by the Star newspaper in 2006.

Lerato worked briefly as a political analyst and during that time she was co-editor of the book Designing Democracy about political systems in Africa, which is published by the Ford Foundation and SAIIA.

Lerato is also a regulator MC and moderator of high level panels on finance, business and economics across South Africa and Africa.