Letlhokwa George Mpedi is a South African academic, who is Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg, as of March 2023, succeeding Professor Tshilidzi Marwala.

[2][3][4] Letlhokwa George Mpedi was born and brought up in a small village in Hammanskraal, a region in northern Gauteng province, South Africa.

[5] He twice received the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) award (in 2000 and 2001), to conduct research in Germany, and in 2003 he took a post-doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Society in Munich.

[10] Mpedi contributes regularly to South African newspapers, including the Daily Maverick,[11] as well as having written many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

[13][14] Awards that Mpedi has received include in 2023 an honorary doctorate from Caucasus University in Tbilisi, Georgia.