Savo Heleta, PhD

Dr Savo Heleta is a Bosnian researcher and consultant with almost two decades experience in South African higher education. His research focuses on decolonisation of knowledge, higher education internationalisation, global citizenship education, foreign aid flows to higher education, and rebuilding higher education after violent conflict. He has worked on post-war peacebuilding and youth leadership development projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998-2002) and post-war capacity building and leadership development in South Sudan (2009-2013). Survivor of the Bosnian war, he is the author of Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia (Amacom Books, 2008). Savo is a research associate with Nelson Mandela University’s Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) in South Africa. He currently lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.