Ms Modise (Nteo) is an acclaimed public sector leader, sustainability specialist and Corporate Governance specialist with over 20 years’ experience in the field and currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Green Building Council of South Africa and Chairperson of the Africa Regional Network of the World Green Building Council.

Until January 2017, she was the Strategic Executive Director: City Sustainability at the City of Tshwane where she was responsible for leading the sustainability programmes and ensuring that the City becomes the greenest most sustainable city in the African Region.

Until December 2012, Ms Modise was a Chief Policy Advisor for Sustainable Development at the South African Government Department of Environmental Affairs where she spearheaded the development and implementation of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development, South Africa’s engagements in global sustainable Development negotiations, the environment sector green economy response including the establishment and management of the national green fund. Ms Modise also led the national environmental outlook reporting processes and the generation of environmental statistics. Before her tenure in National Government, she also worked as Eskom as sustainability advisor and lectured Environmental Pollution and Waste Management at the then Technicon Witwatersrand (currently University of Johannesburg)

Ms Modise holds an MBA from the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute for Business Science (GIBS), A Master’s Degree in Environment and Development from the University of Sussex; a Post-Graduate Diploma in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva,  and a B Tech Degree in Environmental Health from the Tshwane University of Technology.

She has served on numerous boards and advisory panels and  is currently the chairperson of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Africa focal point advisory panel.