Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Elizabeth Sidiropoulos is a nonresident fellow at the Global South Policy Hub. She is the Chief Executive of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), which she has led since 2005. She has over two decades of experience in politics and international relations, and her expertise lies in South Africa’s foreign policy, South-South Cooperation, and the role of emerging powers in Africa. She is a regular commentator in South African and foreign media. She has published on various aspects of South Africa’s foreign policy.

Elizabeth has also co-edited two books exploring the rise of the new development cooperation providers: Development cooperation and emerging powers: New Partners or Old Patterns (Zed Books, 2012) and Institutional Architecture and Development: Responses from Emerging Powers (Jacana, 2015). She is the editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of International Affairs.

Elizabeth is the co-chair of the Think 20 Africa Standing Group, established in 2017 during the German G20 presidency. In December 2020, she was appointed to a two-year term on the Second High-Level Advisory Board of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.