Bogolo Kenewendo

Honorable
Bogolo Kenewendo
Bogolo Kenewendo at the World Investment Forum 2018
Minister of Minerals and Energy
Assumed office
November 2024
PresidentDuma Boko
Vice PresidentNdaba Gaolathe
Preceded byLefoko Maxwell Moagi
Special Advisor and Africa Director to the United Nations Climate Change High-Level Champions
Assumed office
June 2022
High-Level Champions
  • Nigel Topping
Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry
In office
4 April 2018  November 2019
PresidentMokgweetsi Masisi
Vice PresidentSlumber Tsogwane
Succeeded byPeggy Serame
Member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation
In office
12 July 2018  November 2019
Secretary-General
Co-chairs
Member of the Parliament of Botswana
In office
27 October 2016  04 April 2018
PresidentIan Khama
Personal details
Born1987 (age 3738)
Botswana
NationalityBotswana
EducationUniversity of Botswana
(Bachelor of Arts in Economics)
University of Sussex
(Master of Science in International Economics)
OccupationEconomist and politician
Websitehttps://www.kenewendo.com/

Bogolo Joy Kenewendo (born c. 1987) is a Botswanan economist and politician. She serves as a Specially Elected Member of Parliament in the Botswana Parliament as of November 2024, she is the incumbent Minister of Minerals and Energy in the current administration after serving as Cabinet Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry of Botswana under President Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi. After being dropped from cabinet in November 2019 she has served as the managing director of Kenewendo Advisory, based in Gaborone, Botswana. She leads Molaya Kgosi Women Leadership and Mentorship Program and the Board Chair of Molaya Kgosi Trust.

In June 2022, Kenewendo was appointed as Special Advisor and Africa Director to the United Nations Climate Change High-Level Champions.