H.E. Duma Boko
President, Botswana
H.E. Duma Gideon Boko serves as the sixth President of Botswana since 1 November 2024.
Born on December 31, 1969, in Mahalapye, Botswana, Boko studied law at the University of Botswana and then went on to attend Harvard Law School, where he received his Master of Laws degree in 1995. Boko also lectured at the University of Botswana from 1993 to 2003. He was a practicing attorney while teaching and in 2008 opened his own law firm, where he focused on human rights and public interest litigation, among other issues. Some of his human rights advocacy efforts, including a high-profile case (2004–06), were on behalf of the Indigenous Basarwa (San) people, who had been evicted from their homeland. Boko was also active with the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS and served two terms as the chair of the board.
