Professor Anicia Peters is the CEO of NCRST, Adjunct Research Professor and was the Chairperson of the Namibia Presidential Task Force on 4IR. She is founder of Africa Human Computer Interaction Conference and Namibia Women in Computing. She serves on the steering committee of ACM CHI. She works among others on the intersection of technology and gender and co-developed a GenderMag software development method to find gender inclusiveness issues in software.
Professor Anicia has over 30 years of academic and industry experience in Namibia and internationally, including being a pro-vice chancellor for research, a faculty dean and working in the tech industry. She holds a PhD and MSc in human computer interaction from Iowa State University, a postdoctpral from Oregon State University and undergraduate degrees from Namibia University of Science and Technology.
