Suzie Ndaundika Shefeni is interested in the use of strategic, forward-looking analysis to identify, understand, and manage global risk and cultivate resilience for African countries and people. Her work focuses on geopolitical and environmental risk related to climate change and artificial intelligence. She holds a She holds a bachelor's degree majoring in Political and International Studies, Linguistics and German Studies and an honours degree in Political and International Studies with distinction from Rhodes University. She is an alumna of the German Bundestag's International Parliamentary Scholarship where she interned in the German federal parliament, an Allan Gray Fellow and a former research associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research. She was recognised as an emerging expert by the Forum on the Arms Trade for her work on new weapons in Africa, and also serves on the board of one of Namibia's oldest feminist organisations, Sister Namibia. During her time in residency, she pursued a Masters degree in International Relations with a research focus on African persepctives on autonomous weapons systems. In her free time, she enjoys listening to techno music and experiments with words, writing poetry and speculative fiction.