Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo is the Interim Director of the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs at the University of South Africa (UNISA).  Prof Vil- Nkomo is the co-founder and chairman of the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) a leading South African Think Tank. The MISTRA was ranked as having had a global impact - placed as one of the Top 10 Best New Think Tanks Globally, according to the 2013 Global Go-To Think Tanks Report produced by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania (TTCSP). MISTRA continues to attract leading national and global thinkers. 

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In 1994, Prof Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve in the first democratic government as the Public Service Commissioner. By then, he had already been part of the bi-laterals and the Multi- Party negotiations that ushered democracy into our country. 

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His name is inscribed in the Hall of Fame among notable alumni at Lincoln University like Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and others. 

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The Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo Annual Lecture is delivered in his honour at the South African Association for Public Administration and Management

He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Joseph R Biden, Jr School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware.