Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers (born July 3, 1957) is a Ugandan-born Professor in Development Education in South Africa.

She has worked as an international policy adviser to UNESCO and to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)[2] and the governments of South Africa[1] and Uganda.

In 2008 she was a technical adviser on Indigenous Knowledge Systems to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Arts, Culture, Science and Technology when she became a Professor as the South African Research Chair in Development Education.

This was a national position established by South Africa's Department of Science and Technology in Pretoria.

[2] She has also received The National Pioneers Award (2014) from " The Elders " for promoting the African knowledge system over the past 20 years since South Africa's democratic liberation.