Tshepo is Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, in the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow (non-resident) at the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to this, he was lecturer in the Department of International Relations, at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). He has also held posts at the University of Botswana, the Botswana Defence Force Defence Command and Staff College (BDF-DCSC) and the Center for Military Studies at Stellenbosch University (South Africa).

Research interests and supervision: 

• Intelligence studies **
• Foreign security actors in Africa: the United States, France, China, and Germany*
• African agency in international politics**