Professor Christopher Changwe Nshimbi is Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) and Full Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. He holds the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Research Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region and researches regional integration, migration, borders, the informal economy, governance and Africa-EU relations. Professor Nshimbi sits in on regional and international technical working groups on trade, labour, migration, water governance, and Africa-EU relations. He teaches African & Regional Politics, Regional Integration, State Formation & Governance in Africa and supervises postgraduate research at the University of Pretoria. Professor Nshimbi has over 100 publications including monographs, edited books, peer-reviewed academic journal articles and commissioned expert reports. He also publishes op-eds in THE CONVERSATION and other online media platforms.