Olga Perovic, MD, MMED, FCPATH is the principal pathologist, head of the antimicrobial resistance laboratory and culture collection, and associate professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She joined NICD in 2009, where her main activities are in national surveillance for antimicrobial resistance for nosocomial pathogens at NICD-GERMS-SA, and reference methods for phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing and their clinical applications, and she is an expert in laboratory quality systems. She teaches and trains undergraduates, postgraduates, and related learners. Olga is a member of the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP), South Africa; the principal investigator of Laboratory-Based Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (LARS) for nosocomial pathogens at national sentinel sites in South Africa; a member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on AMR at WHO; a member of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS); and she is chair of the National Advisory Committee for Antimicrobials at the South African Society of Clinical Microbiology. Olga is head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for AMR in the AFRO region since 2017 and is a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on AMR at the National Department of Health. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.