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The former Public Protector of South Africa and full-time Commissioner in the South African Law Reform Commission, Prof Madonsela is a member of the African Academy of Sciences and the Scottish WS Society. She is the Chairperson of Cities Alliance and a member of the UN Scientific Advisory Board, the International Anticorruption Conference Coordinating body, and the International Council for Arbitration in Sport (ICAS).

She was one of the eleven technical experts who helped draft the South African Constitution and is a co-architect of several constitutionally mandated laws, including the Equality Act, Employment Equity Act, and Promotion of Administrative Justice Act. A regularly sought keynote speaker, Prof Madonsela has written, taught, presented papers, and published for decades on these matters.

Prof Madonsela helped draft several international human rights instruments at UN, AU, and SADC level, and country reports on such matters. She is the author of two books on Gender Mainstreaming (2002) and Gender Management (2002), and a core author and architect of the inaugural Benchbook for Equality Courts and Resource Book for Equality Court Clerks.

Named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the world in 2014 and Forbes Africa Person of the Year in 2017, Prof Madonsela's global recognition includes over 70 awards, including Rotary's Paul Harris Award, the Commonwealth Lawyers Truth and Justice Award, and the global ACFE Cressey Award. Prof Madonsela is a mother of two, a philanthropist, and an avid mountaineer who has summited Mt Kilimanjaro twice under #Trek4Mandela – #Caring4Girls and #Action4Inclusion. She was a monthly columnist for the Financial Mail, remains one for the City Press, and occasionally writes for other newspapers.

In several trips to South Africa, Kim has been honoured to connect with the pioneers who have helped shape the movement. South African lawyers have produced some of the most innovative integrative legal practice in the world, from Comic Contracts to Earth Law to Milkwood Law, work that has influenced the movement globally. She has spoken at several South African universities, including the University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, UNISA, and Varsity College, and presented at the Southern Africa Law Teachers conference in 2022. She also consulted on the design of an Integrative Law curriculum now taught across the IIE Varsity College network of law schools.

She is the author or co-editor of three American Bar Association-published books and a contributor to Integrative Law: A Paradigm Shift in Legal Education and Beyond, forthcoming from the University of Johannesburg, and is co-editor and contributor to a forthcoming volume on Integrative Law in Brazil. Her work also appears in Italian (Portatori di cambiamento, Edizioni Enea, 2025) and Spanish (Derecho colaborativo, un nuevo paradigma para la abogacía, Marcial Pons, forthcoming 2026), with peer-reviewed articles in the University of Western Australia Law Review, NYU Journal of Law and Business, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, and Brazilian and Puerto Rican law journals. As one of the co-creators of the Conscious Contracts® model, Kim manages a community of trainers and practitioners who do business in eight languages.

Now based in North Carolina, Kim serves on the TEDLaw Core Team. She has expanded her work into sustainability as fractal counsel to TS Designs, a pioneering B Corporation making sustainable textiles, and as a board member of Sky Power for the People, a portable solar initiative bringing energy resilience to underserved and disaster-prone communities.