Professor Andrew Boraine is an independent partnering and systems change practitioner. He has been involved in South Africa’s political, local government, urban, economic, and sustainability change processes for the past four decades. He initiated and managed three collaborative intermediary organisations over a 25-year period – the South African Cities Network (SACN), Cape Town Partnership (CTP), and Western Cape Economic Development Partnership (EDP). He has hands-on experience of over 100 multi-stakeholder partnering processes, covering a wide range of issues and sectors, including water, food and nutrition and agriculture and rural development. He currently works with a range of local and global partners in government, civil society, community, business, and research and knowledge institutions. Andrew is Adjunct Professor with the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST), Stellenbosch University.