Ms Majaja started her career as a government official proceeded into academia both in academia and managementfor 10years and back into government for the past 18 years. She possessesa Bachelor degree in Economics & Industrial Psychology, an Honours from UNISA and a Master’s degree in Development Economics from Williams College in Massachusetts in USA. Ms Majaja has obtained attended various short courses in the Space Arena from International Space University, University of Cape Town and University of Pretoria.

Policy and Strategy Development

 Nomfuneko has been exposed and led Strategy development and implementation in various advanced manufacturing sectoral grouping; including Aerospace & Defence.

 Ms Majaja has acquired experience in consulting earlier where she provided researched and Strategic documents for the Provincial and local government.

Space Policy & Regulatory Aspects

She has been serving as a Chief Director in the development and implementation of Space Legislation and Policy domain for the past 17 years. Ms Majaja servedas thedtic representative and the Vice Chairperson during the past 3 terms of the South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA), which is a space regulatory body under the Minister of Trade and Industry.

Stakeholder management

She has held various stakeholder engagement and multilateral workshops at government level and intergovernmental level. Ms Majaja has led the South African delegation to UNCOPUOS for a number of years. She has shown her great organizational skills as instrumental in hosting of the 1^stever International Astronautical Congress (IAC) held in the Continent by South-Africa in 2011. She led the development and approval of National Space Policy for South Africa and the Space Industry Development Framework. She possesses research and policy development and implementation skills. Ms Majaja has been instrumental in the review of the South African primary Space Legislation and development of the SA Space industry Regulatory Bill, which has gone through processes, required served in executive governance structures.

She is equipped with leadership qualities as she serves as a Board member of the South African National Space Agency since 2018 Ms Majaja served as the Chair of the UNCOPUOS Legal Sub- Committee for 2022-2023 and vice Chair of the Main Committee in 2010-1011.

Youth Development

Ms Majaja has passion for capacity building of the youth, in this regard, has supported various academic programmes that involve development of the students as such beenthe coordinator for the past 8 years for Africa Region of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, which is regarded as the Space Regulation Capacity Building Program. She was instrumental in hosting and capacitating students, public and private officials in Air, Space & Telecoms short course by the University of Pretoria which continued for about 6 years.