Natasja Holtzhausen holds a BA Degree in Political Science, a BA (Hons) in Public Administration and a MA in Public Administration from the University of Pretoria. She completed her D Litt et Phil at the University of South Africa (Unisa) focusing on whistle blower protection and completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education at the University of Pretoria. She is an external examiner for a vast number of HEIs and supervises Masters and Doctoral students. She is currently the coordinator of the SPMA Phd/D Admin programme and serves on the Teaching and Learning Committee of the EMS Faculty. She enjoys curricular community engagement and is actively involved in a number of community engagement projects and enjoys especially interacting, engaging and serving in communities. Natasja is regularly invited as a guest speaker on aspects relating to corruption, whistle blower protection, work integrated and service learning. She is frequently invited to share her supervisory experiences at the NRF SA PhD Conferences. She has been involved in a number of non-curricular community engagement projects of which 4 were published and currently acts as the project coordinator on a programme that focus on road safety. Prof Holtzhausen has served on the executive of two professional associations, most notably as the first female chairperson of the Association of Schools and Departments of Public Administration and Management (ASSADPAM). She was also the chief editor of the accredited journal Administratio Publica and strives to empower emerging researchers. She is the recipient of numerous awards for exceptional excellence and achievement.

Her research interests include ethics, corruption, whistle blower protection, curricular community engagement, graduateness and education in Public Administration. Her passion is to empower others and to create experiences that matters.