S20 South Africa

Prof Roseanne Diab is Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Recently, she served as Director of the global initiative, GenderInSITE, which is based in Trieste, Italy and chaired the Gender Advisory Committee of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). She is the former Executive Officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and is a current Council member. She is a Member of ASSAf and is recognised for her research contributions and invited presentations in the fields of atmospheric sciences, particularly air quality and climate change, and gender equality and STEM. She is a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the South African Geographical Society, TWAS, the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the International Science Council (ISC). She has been a Fulbright senior research scholar and has been a member of a number of international bodies such as the International Ozone Commission (IOC). She currently serves on the African Union High-Level Panel on Emerging Technologies and is a Board member of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professionals (SACNASP).  She is also a member of the Advisory Group of the US National Academies initiative on Gender-based Violence in Higher Education and was recently co-chair of an OECD Expert Group on Reducing the Precarity of Young Researchers’ Careers.