Boitumelo Sendy Gofhamodimo holds a Masters and Bachelors degrees in Economics from the University of Botswana. She is a free-lance Consultant on international trade policy and Industrialisation, mainly at regional level. She is affiliated to the Southern Africa Trust as a Research Fellow and a registered scholar on Global Value Chains with the Duke University Centre for Global Value Chains.

Ms Gofhamodimo has previously worked for the Ministry of Trade Industry Wildlife and Tourism (Botswana) from May 1986 – March 2004, initially focusing on the development and promotion of small, medium and micro enterprises through entrepreneurship development, training, financial assistance, marketing and promotion of the Buy Botswana Campaign. She rose to the position of Deputy Director in the Department of Industrial Affairs and later, Director in the Department of International Trade, at which levels, she focussed mainly strategic management, planning and performance management; industrial and trade policy development, analysis and review as well as trade negotiations. Boitumelo later joined the SADC Secretariat on secondment in April 2004, where she served as Chief Technical Advisor for the SADC – EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations. In December 2008, she became the Director responsible for Trade Industry Finance and Investment at the SADC Secretariat, where she provided advice on a wide variety of issues including regional and multilateral trade negotiations, implementation of the SADC Free Trade Area, the SADC Finance and Investment landscapes and spearheaded several initiatives pertaining to regional economic integration in SADC, including the operationalisation of the SADC Project Preparation and Development Facility; the SADC Integrated Regional Electronic Settlement System and the SADC Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap.