Anastacia Mamabolo is a senior lecturer specialising in research at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). She qualified as an Optometrist and after few years of practising, she registered an MBA at the University of Limpopo, followed by a PhD (business administration with focus on entrepreneurship) at GIBS. She teaches on the MPhil International Business, MPhil Corporate Strategy and Doctoral Programmes in the areas of research entrepreneurship and research design. In addition to teaching responsibilities, she is involved in GIBS Project Orbit that is about understanding business and management in Africa. As part of the project team, she conducted interviews with more than 100 C-level executives in Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria. She has presented at international conferences and published entrepreneurship articles in peer-reviewed journals. Anastacia also supervises masters and doctoral students.