Johannes Fedderke: Johannes Fedderke is a Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He is currently the Director of Economic Research Southern Africa. He holds the Helen Suzman Chair in Political Economy and a position in the Business School at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests centre on the determinants of economic growth, with special interest in the role of institutions in long run economic development. His published work includes empirical and theoretical contributions, and has provided cross-country, panel and country specific time series evidence on the interaction of growth and institutions. He has contributed various policy research reports to the South African National Treasury and Departments of Trade & Industry, Arts, Science & Technology, the World Bank, and the South African Parliament. Currently he is the Managing Editor of the South African Journal of Economics, is serving as a board member of the National Research Foundation, is an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and is a past president of the African Econometrics Society.

Jesmond Blumenfeld: Jesmond Blumenfeld, formerly of Brunel University, United Kingdom, and St Peter’s College, Oxford University, is a senior consultant for Oxford Analytica.

Antoinette Handley: Antoinette Handley is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Toronto. She is a graduate of Natal University. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and subsequently a Fullbright Fellow at Princeton.

Francis Davis: Francis Davis is a Fellow of Blackfriars, Oxford and visiting Lecturer in social enterprise and community development at the University of Cambridge. He has been appointed specialist policy advisor to the UK Government. Francis is also a leading commentator on social policy and religion. His research focuses on the innovation potential of voluntary action, philanthropy and social enterprise in public sector reform, corporate accountability, and civic renewal.

Raphael de Kadt: Raphael de Kadt is Professor of Political Sciences at St Augustine’s College, Johannesburg. His interests lie in political theory and its implications for policy development and modernisation studies.

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Amanda Reichman: Amanda Reichman was at the Johannesburg Bar for 10 years. She acted as Special Advisor to Council at the Independent Broadcasting Authority, later ICASA, and served on the Independent Electoral Commission in the country’s first democratic elections in ‘94. She then moved to Arusha, Tanzania to be Legal Advisor and then Appeals Counsel for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2001 - 2009.

Claudia Braude: Claudia B Braude is an independent scholar. She has brought engagement with race, memory and identity in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa to bear on a wide range of topics. Unafraid to address complex issues (including race and the media for the South African Human Rights Commission, and Jewish culture and historiography), her writing has not always been uncontroversial. Currently bringing her substantial work on South African processes of history-telling, truth, reconciliation and justice into comparative perspective, she is considering the psycho-social impact of mass historical trauma and political crimes on the development of human rights cultures.

John Luiz: John Luiz is a professor at the Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, specialising in economics, international business, the business environment, and business, society, and government.

Mary Tomlinson: Mary Tomlinson is one of South Africa’s experts in housing policy and delivery.

Alex Amtaika: Alex Amtaika is a senior lecturer of politics at the University of KwaZulu Natal. He obtained his PhD from Wits University. His field of interest lies in local government, and African politics. He has just returned from a year’s sabbatical as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Charles Simkins: Charles Simkins is a distinguished economist. He is Professor of Economics at St Augustine’s College and formerly held the Helen Suzman Chair of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and is a recipient of the Helen Suzman Chevening Fellowship, a UK Foreign Office award.