Dr Fay King Chung is a co-founder and Chairperson Board of Trustees of the Women’s University in Africa. The former cabinet minister is a renowned educationist and administrator whose career has been almost exclusively in the education sector. She started off her career as a secondary school teacher and rose through the ranks to occupy several offices in the Ministry of Education. Dr Chung is a former Minister of Education. She has been involved in a number of non governmental organizations and she took part in the formation of the Zimbabwe Foundation for Education with Production. She has sat on several boards which include the Forum for Women’s Educationalists (FAWE), Zimbabwe National Education Advisory Board and member to the Delors Commission on Education. Dr Chung is also a founder member of the Association for strengthening Higher Education for women in Africa (ASHEWA).She has several publications to her name which include “Reliving the Second Chimurenga”.

Professor Hope Sadza is the founder of Women’s University in Africa and its current Vice Chancellor. A former Public Service Commissioner and Parastatals Services Commissioner Professor Sadza is a member of various professional organisations which include the Institute of Personnel Management in Zimbabwe, University of Venda Council, the Zimbabwe Institute of Management and is a Councilor of the Institute of Directors Zimbabwe. She also sits on the company boards for Barclays Bank, Delta Cooperation and Securico Security Services amongst others. A renowned administrator and academic, Professor Sadza has won several awards in Nigeria, Washington DC, and Zimbabwe. These include runner up in the 2006 Director of the year (Public Service and National Contribution Award Category). In 2009 she won the most prestigious Fulbright Scholarship tenable in the United States of America being one of the three recipients in Africa. All these were awarded for her work in co-founding the Women’s University in Africa and sustaining it from 2002 to date.