Dr Wolfgang Werner is a former Associate Professor in the Department of Land and Property Sciences at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. He has been involved in the Namibian land reform programme since its inception in 1990, serving as Namibia’s first Director of Lands from 1990-1995. His subsequent research and consultancy work has concentrated on resettlement and land tenure issues in Namibia. In 2020 a book he co-edited with Willem Odendaal dealing with indigeneity, marginalisation and land rights in post-independence Namibia was published.