Lesoetsa Makafane

Lesoetsa Makafane provides overall leadership and direction of the company while also in charge of business development, ensuring that Avalanche’s current clients are satisfied and securing new business. He was previously involved in the management of projects for a client building a system of systems infrastructure valued at above M26 billion, that involves construction of a 165m high concrete-face rockfill dam and a 38km long tunnel intended to increase water supply from the Highlands of Lesotho to the province of Gauteng in South Africa. His role was centred on procurement management including acquisition strategy and solicitation. The project is concerned with procuring services of engineering design firms, construction contractors and social and environmental expertise.

A procurement and supply chain management practitioner with many years of experience in the field, he has previously managed multi-million dollar procurements working with the United States Government’s Millennium Challenge Account – Lesotho, where he oversaw strategy and procurement management for construction of water and health infrastructure and private sector development, the implementation of which covered the whole of Lesotho. Prior to doing procurement, Mr. Makafane worked in the office of the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Account – Lesotho, monitoring and reporting on progress in various departments ranging from water and health infrastructure, procurement, monitoring and evaluation, to fiscal accountability, consolidating this for the CEO and for external stakeholders. During this time, he was also adjunct board secretary in managing the affairs of the board of directors.

Mr. Makafane has served on the faculty at the National University of Lesotho, teaching various courses in a number of departments. He is a BA graduate of the same university. He read the Master of Arts in Sustainable International Development (Development Economics) at Brandeis University (USA). He is a fellow of the Programme for African Leadership of the world-renowned London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), where he also read the Master of Science in Accounting, Organisations and Institutions. He also read a Master of Science in Infrastructure Investment and Finance (with Merit) at the University College London (UK). Mr. Makafane is a member of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. He holds a Second Dan Black Belt in Tae-Kwondo from Kukkiwon.