Liezel Lues, D.Tech Public Management (Central University of Technology), is an associate professor of Public Administration and Management at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research interests include Public Management Transitions, particularly the role of leadership accountability. She has published extensively in the above field. Her latest research appears in the International Journal of Public Administration. Her latest academic book chapter focuses on South Africa’s surviving VUCA environments. Since 2015-2018 she was respectively the Deputy- and Chairperson of the Association of Southern African Departments of Public Administration and Management. At present, she is a Co-chairperson of the working group VI – Public Sector Leadership and Governance of the International Associations of Schools and Institutes of Administration. ORCiD: 0000-0003-3841-4949LinkedIn: https://za.linkedin.com/in/liezel-lues