Title: Professor
Area of Specialization: Chemistry: Organic Synthesis & Natural Products Chemistry
Affiliation: Botswana Academy of Science

Ishmael Masesane is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Botswana where he has served as Head of the Department of Chemistry (2015-2020) and Dean of the Faculty of Science (January 2021-2023). He is a former president of the Botswana Chemical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the current president of the Botswana Academy of Science and former Executive Board Member of Commonwealth Chemistry.  

 Ishmael Masesane’s academic qualifications includes a PhD in organic synthesis awarded by the University of Durham, UK in 2004, a BSc (chemistry and biology) in 1996 and MSc (natural products chemistry) degrees in 1998 both awarded by the University of Botswana. 
Ishmael’s research interests span both natural products chemistry and organic synthesis as vehicles to discover new pharmaceuticals. He has published over sixty (60) journal articles and four (4) book chapters and has Scopus h-index of 15.