Christopher Mpofu has a strong background in the fields of agriculture, biochemistry and analytical chemistry. His past research work involved pesticide residue analysis in biota and his research findings have been presented at international conferences in Southern and West Africa respectively. He and his co-authors have contributed to a book chapter entitled “Modern sample preparation techniques for pesticide analysis.” He joins Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation having served in the Ministry of Agriculture   Agricultural Resources Board (ARB) and Botswana College of agriculture (BCA) respectively). Currently he is in a team which is working on developing inexpensive biomaterial based water filters using materials found locally.