Professor Chris Landsberg holds the SARChI Chair of African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and is a senior associate at the UJ School of Leadership. He is the former head of the department of politics and international relations at UJ. Prof Landsberg was educated at the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg); Rhodes; and Oxford, and holds an MPhil and DPhil international relations degrees (Oxon). He was as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and is a former Hamburg Fellow at Stanford University, United States (US). Previously he was director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in Johannesburg, and co-founder and former co-director of the Centre for Africa's International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Dr Lesley Masters is a senior researcher and lecturer at the NRF Chair of African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at UJ. Prior to this she was a senior researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD), responsible for managing projects on foreign policy and diplomacy. She holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Leicester. She has edited books on South African foreign policy and natural resource governance, and served as joint guest editor of a special issue of the Journal for Contemporary History on African Diplomacy, and a special issue of the South African Journal of International Affairs.