Lindela Rowland Ndlovu is an expert in animal nutrition with a special interest in nutritional biochemistry. He has worked in higher education for many years, rising from lecturer to professor and has served in management roles at departmental, faculty and university level. In these various administrative roles he has served on university senates and councils and chaired numerous committees. As dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Zimbabwe, he spearheaded a major curriculum review and initiated interdepartmental research programmes.

As pro vice-chancellor at the National University of Science and Technology, he was instrumental in the development and adoption of an institutional ICT policy and strengthening research capacity.
He has received many awards for his research, including the International Foundation for Science/Danida Award for excellency in smallholder livestock research (1998), the South African Society of Animal Science Gold Medal for Research (2007) and the Research Council of Zimbabwe Presidential Award for Agriculture Research (Animal Science) in 2013. He has also won the Manager of the Year award for the public sector from the Zimbabwe Institute of Management (2007) for his leadership of the National University of Science and Technology.

Professor Ndlovu is a founder member of the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences and is a member of the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education.