Prof Mamokgethi Setati holds three professorships. She is full professor and executive Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at the University of South Africa; honorary professor of mathematics education at Wits University and professor extraordinaire at the Tshwane University of Technology. She served as Chairperson of the board of the South African Mathematics Foundation in 2005, National President of the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa from 2002 to 2006 and secretary of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education from 2003 to 2007. Currently she is deputy chairperson of the South African Board for the International Council for Science (ICSU). Mamokgethi is a C1-NRF rated researcher and has over 35 reviewed articles published in local and international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.