Harvesting diamonds from the sky

Eunice Ntobedzi has enjoyed an illustrious career. A graduate of the University of Pretoria and following sponsorship from the UK government via a Chevening scholarship, Ntobedzi was awarded her MSc in Management (Enterprise & Business Growth) by the famous Adam Smith Business School University of Glasgow. She was then offered an exceptional talent Visa by the United Kingdom (UK) Government but decided to return to Botswana to develop her business ideas.

In 2018, the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst programme awarded its largest grant to collaboration partners of which Ntobedzi was the African partner. She founded African Sustainable Energy (ASE) in late 2020 to commercialise research funded by the UK Innovation agency ‘Innovate UK’.