Professor Maano Ramutsindela is the UP-UCT Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations, and Professor of Human Geography at UCT’s Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. He is the co-lead of the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence on the politics of sustainable development. A Canon Collins Scholar, Ramutsindela holds a PhD in Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Master’s in Geography from the University of the North (Turfloop). He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Science at UCT, is a Fellow of the Society of South African Geographers and a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.  He has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University and the University of Western Australia, and was Distinguished Chair at Macalester College and Inaugural Visting Professor at the University of Geneva. His current research focuses on socioecological relations and the political ecology of peace parks. He is the author of Transfrontier Conservation in Africa: At the Confluence of Capital, Politics, and Nature and co-editor of The Violence of Conservation in Africa (Edward Elgar, 2022).