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Tshilidzi Marwala

Tshilidzi Marwala

Rector of the United Nations University

Jul 28, 2026

9:31
Did she inspire you to become a scientist?
9:34
Yes.
9:35
You know, because, um, later on, uh, when I arrived at the University of Cambridge as a PhD student, I did not really know how to, what I'm gonna do a PhD on.
9:48
I was really open-minded.
9:51
I had to actually go and see what, of all the things that I have studied, what am I interested in? Obviously, it was not gonna be acting, [laughs] so, uh, it was engineer.
10:06
So I arrived there.
10:07
So my PhD was on fault identification using neural networks.

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