Prof Nico Koopman is Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel at Stellenbosch University, and is a professor of Public Theology and Ethics. He was Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University. He was founding member and chairperson of the Global Network for Public Theology and is a fellow of the Institute for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. 

His research focuses on themes like inalienable dignity, healing reconciliation, embracive justice, responsible freedom, equality, as well as the reciprocal and transformative impact of universities on the various spheres of society, including the domains of politics, economics, the natural environment, civil society and public opinion-formation. He is involved in public discourses in the academy, churches and broader society, both locally and internationally.