In addition to the six main episodes of the Aporde Podcast Series, we are pleased to present a supplementary series of interviews. These interviews are hosted and conducted by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) Communications Officer Nondwe Majundana and feature a diverse range of specialists in the field of development economics. Dr Rendani Mamphiswana is an innovation expert and policy scholar. His research focuses on innovation (firm level and national), and policy (science, technology, innovation and industrial in the global South). He is an alumni from the seventeenth edition of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) in 2023.