Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Abbreviation	CSIR
Formation	1945[1]
Type	Research and development organisation
Location	Pretoria, South Africa
Region served	South Africa
President and CEO	Thulani Dlamini[2]
Website	www.csir.co.za

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is South Africa a scientific research and development organisation. It was established by an act of parliament in 1945 and is situated on its own campus in the city of Pretoria.^[3] It is the largest research and development (R&D) organisation in Africa and accounts for about 10% of the entire African R&D budget.^{[citation needed]} It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific researchers, often working in multi-disciplinary teams.