Dr Tendai Douglas Svotwa BBS (Hons), MBA, PhD, FHEA

Dr Tendai Douglas Svotwa is a Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, Executive Business Centre, in the Greenwich Business School. He joined the University in April 2023 having taught in Botswana Universities for 10 years. Before joining the academia, Dr Svotwa worked in the commercial banking sector and is a seasoned banker with more than 12years’ experience working in the corporate sector, mainly in the Treasury Department as a Chief Dealer and Treasury Manager. Dr Svotwa is also a renowned academic, who has taught at tertiary institutions since 2009, starting off his teaching career at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. He was a Senior Lecturer at Botho University, Graduate Studies and Research Department, Gaborone, Botswana where he taught and supervised postgraduate students. Dr Svotwa has taught the following courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level: Business Management, Management, Strategic Management, Marketing Management, Business Research Methods, Organisational Behaviour, Management of Change, and Human Resources Management. To date, he has graduated more than 40 undergraduate students in their research projects and more than 20 MBA students in their dissertations. Furthermore, Dr Svotwa conducted training on Business Leadership to Executives in some organisations in Botswana. He is an External Examiner for MBA and PhD at the University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa); University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa); North-West University (South Africa); University of Namibia (Namibia Business School); Botswana Open University and Botswana Accountancy College. Dr Svotwa is a reviewer of several journals including the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (Emerald).  He was also a Guest Presenter for the North-West University, Business School, for the MBA Summer Study School, 26 January 2022, where hepresented a paper on: The role of African Business Schools in Promoting Entrepreneurship: Prospects for the future. In June 2022, he was a member of the Scientific Committee for the International University of Rabat, Morocco, International Conference on Business Practices in a VUCA world, June 23-24, 2022.

He is also an accomplished researcher, having published extensively in peer reviewed journals. His research interests are in the fields of strategy, leadership, general management, entrepreneurship, family businesses and marketing management. To date he has published 16 journal articles, 6 book chapters in Springer and Taylor and Francis (4 more book chapters have been accepted for publication by Juta Publishers) and has presented 10 papers at local and international conferences. Dr Svotwa has presented at local and international Conferences such as Botswana, Egypt, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, and France. He is a member of The European Academy of Management (EURAM), Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), and a Life-time member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. He is also the Country Director for Botswana for the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL). In 2017, he was one of the two African scholars selected to represent Africa for the first time in the history of EURAM, in Rabat, Morocco, at the PhD Doctoral Colloquium: EURAM Early Career Colloquium (EECC), facilitated by EURAM. IN 2022, he was part of a 10-member team engaged as a Co-Country Investigator (CCI) in Botswana for the Global Leadership and Business Effectiveness (GLOBE) survey focusing on organisational culture, trust, and leadership in more than 110 countries across the globe. Findings from the research are yet to be published.