Ms Kgaugelo Mogashoa

Ms Kgaugelo Mogashoa is currently the Director and Head of the Directorate Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) of the Republic of South Africa. As the Head of the Directorate, she is responsible for the implementation of South Africa’s foreign policy on matters related to Conventional Arms, Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Biological, Chemical and Arms Control. She is also the Coordinator of South Africa’s Nuclear Suppliers Group Chairship for the period 2024-2025.

Ms Mogashoa is a well-established diplomat with twenty years of experience across bilateral and multilateral fields with demonstrable expertise in leadership, management, negotiations, strategic and analytical thinking. She has served in various positions both in South Africa and abroad. She previously served as the Acting Director for the Directorate responsible for international peace and security including the United Nations (UN) Security Council, UN Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonisation), UN Peacebuilding Architecture, UN Peacekeeping and Counter-Terrorism.

She was deployed at the South African Permanent Mission to the UN in New York as the Deputy Political Coordinator during South Africa’s third term as an elected member of the UN Security Council for 2019 – 2020. Prior to this, she previously served at the South African High Commission in Nigeria, Abuja from March 2011 to December 2014 where her responsibilities  included strengthening political and economic relations between South Africa and the host State.

Since joining the then Department of Foreign Affairs/DIRCO in 2005, Ms Mogashoa has held other positions within Foreign Service including in the Branches for Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East gaining a wealth of experience in foreign relations.

Ms Mogashoa is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in South Africa.