Dr Fikile Muriel Mnisi

Dr Fikile Muriel Mnisi has a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Witwatersrand, with a background in Biotechnology (i.e., Regenerative or Tissue Engineering). She has worked in both academic environments and private companies. Currently part of the Human Research Ethics Committee Member for Social Sciences at the University of Mpumalanga, and is a member and exco committee member for the Research Ethics Committee Association of Southern Africa (REASA). She has served as an Animal Ethics Committee Member at the Tshwane University of Technology. She served as Edenvale Regional Hospital Chairperson (prior as a board member). She was an organising committee for the 6th International Conference on Ethics Education (IAEE) in Cape Town, SA.

She has authored a variety of scientific papers, scientific books, and has peer-reviewed scholarly articles for journals. She has been involved in mentoring young academic professionals. She has founded a company called Khaca (Pty) Ltd which focuses on biotechnology policies, research, and ethics training and consultation. She also founded a NPC called Inkanyeti Foundation that focuses on addressing stigmas around mental illness. She is biotechnologist, bioethicist, ethics educator, ethics consultant, researcher, early-entrepreneur, and early community developer. Her main focus is in the field of Biotechnology, Bioethics, Legal and Social issues.

She is interested in working in multi or trans-disciplinary environment to analyse, create and implement innovative solutions. Her passion is social justice (i.e. Harmony) whether it is allocative and/ or distributive justice pertaining to matter in biotechnology, medical or health, Ethics, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI,) Research Ethics, One Health, Digital Ethics, and bio-politics to influence policy and decision making.