Gracsious Maviza

Bio

Gracsious Maviza is a Gender and Migration Climate Security Scientist and the Regional Lead for Southern Africa within the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security Team at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. She is also a Research Associate with the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Maviza holds a BSc Honours degree in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe (Harare, Zimbabwe), a Master of Arts in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Hague, The Netherlands) and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). 

Before joining the Alliance, she was a Research Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (IDS-NUST) in Zimbabwe.