Thando Gwebu

Dr. Gwebu is a human geographer whose research specialization is population, development and the environment – with a focus on urbanization and sustainable development. After receiving his PhD in Geography from Kent State University for his research on migration and the dynamics of the space economy in Sierra Leone, Dr. Gwebu became a Fellow at the Oxford Institute on Population and Ageing. Although he has taught in the United States and southern Africa, Dr. Gwebu spent the bulk of his academic career in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Botswana, where he taught Population Geography and Gender, and the Environment, before he retired. His contribution to geographic thought was manifest in more than 60 published articles on the topics of population dynamics and development, and gender and intergenerational issues.