Nan Warner has specialist knowledge of higher education partnerships and cooperating with donor organisations, with particular expertise in designing and managing African academic partnership programs. Before becoming the Open AIR Program Manager, Warner’s previous position at UCT was managing and directing the university’s African Academic Links programme and its University Science, Humanities and Engineering Partnerships in Africa (USHEPiA) programme. Warner holds a Master’s in Education with a specialisation in Higher Education from the University of the Western Cape.