Team Category: Academic Board

Golekanye Setume has 26 years of experience in the public service, holding critical portfolios at different levels from principal education officer to Deputy Permanent Secretary responsible for support services and post-secondary sponsorship in the Ministry of Education and Skills Development. He had also served as Executive Director (Permanent Secretary level) at Botswana Public Service College.

Following his retirement from the public service, he joined the private higher education sector, where he worked as a Dean and rose to the rank of Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, responsible for the Office of External Relations, which overlooks Admissions, Stakeholder Relations, Marketing and Communications for Botho University.

Setume holds an MEd in Professional Development from Northern College, Scotland, an MBA from Botho University, a BEd in Education (Mathematics) & Diploma in Secondary Education from the University of Botswana. He is currently the Chairman of the Education Sector at Business Botswana, which entails advocacy for a conducive business environment for private education from pre-school to higher education and TVET.

Mr. Andima Tileinge joined Botho Higher Education Institute in 2019 as an Assistant Dean and continued in the same position when the name changed to Botho University (BU). In 2021 I was appointed to head the Namibian Campus in the same capacity as Assistant Dean till to date.
He was the Director of Trade and Commerce in the Ministry of Trade and Industry when he initiated the idea of establishing The Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA). He became the founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BIPA in 2014. As CEO he developed a roadmap to systematically transfer the activities and personnel from the Directorate of Trade and Commerce to BIPA.

Viswanathan Sankaranarayanan has over 14 years of vast experience gained in 14 years of academic experience in the Higher Education field as an Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, and Assessment Manager in India and Botswana, blended with experience in the software industry as a Software Developer. He has strong interpersonal and communication skills, a very accessible and warm person which adds to his ability to efficiently lead diverse teams.
Educational Qualification:
· Undergoing (PhD), in the area of Educational Data Mining, Bharathiar University, India 2018- Present
· M.Phil in Computer Science from Periyar University, India, 2010-2011.
· Master of Computer Application from Indira Gandhi National University, India, 2000-2003.
· Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, (1994-1999).