Keboitse Machangana is a God fearing woman, wife and mother of two boys. She has 20 years experience working in the field of Democracy and Governance. She started her professional career at Emang Basadi Women´s Association- a women´s humanrights association in Botswana which played a leading role in placing the gender equality agenda in Botswana´s national agenda. She then worked for USAID Regional Centre for Southern Africa as advisor on democracy and governance issues. Six years ago, Keboitse Machangana moved to Stockholm, Sweden to join the International Institute for Democracy & Electoral Assistance ( International IDEA), an inter-governmental organisation with the sole mandate of supporting democracy world-wide. At International IDEa, Keboitse Machangana heads the state of democracy programme-- a programme that supports the conduct of citizen-led and owned quality of democracy assessments in difefrent parts of the world. Keboitse has travelled fairly extensively around the world leading to her deep appreciation of the various diversities and the interconnectedness of humanity

Keboitse holds a Master in Public Administration, Post Graduate Diploma in Education and Bachelor of Arts in Humanities all from the University of Botswana. She has attended several training courses and conferences.

She posseses workshop facilitation skills and has trained several constituencies in gender, advocacy, civic education, citizen led assessments of democracy.

Keboitse Machangana is a citizen of Botswana currently resinding in Sweden