Busani Ngcaweni is the Director-General of the National School of Government. Before that, he was the Head of Policy and Research in The Presidency and Chief of Staff to President and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. He also served as Chief of Staff to Deputy Presidents Kgalema Motlanthe, Baleka Mbete and
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. He joined the Policy Unit in The Presidency in 2005 as a Senior Policy Analyst, having been Divisional Director at Umsobomvu Youth Fund. He has balanced policy development, programme implementation, institution building and scholarly research to shape his application of statecraft.

Ngcaweni is a graduate of the University of Durban-Westville, the University of Natal, the University of South Africa and Wits University. He is a DPhil Research Fellow in Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Adjunct Professor at Wits School of Governance.