Jolanda Roux is a tree health expert with nearly 20 years of experience working with microbial diseases of plantation and native trees. She is a research team leader of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) and DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB) in the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.