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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.
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Jesmond Blumenfeld, formerly of Brunel University, United Kingdom, and St Peter’s College, Oxford University, is a senior consultant for Oxford Analytica.
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Laurence Boulle has degrees in Arts and Law. He completed his PhD in 1982, is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and is an accredited mediator in Australia. He has practiced law, been a law teacher for many years, and has worked as a mediator since 1990. He chaired the advisory council to the Australian government on dispute resolution policy and practice. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2008. Laurence has published extensively in several areas, including constitutional law, mediation and dispute resolution. Laurence has worked as an academic at several Universities. He is currently Director of the Mandela Institute and Issy Wolfson Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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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.
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Francis Davis is former Policy Advisor to the UK Labour Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and more recently has also advised Minsiters and Cabinet Ministers in the Coalition Government in Westminster. Working, consulting and writing with think tanks such as the Young Foundation, the Centre For Public Scrutiny and the New Local Government Network, he also runs training programmes on new models for local social innovation especially among local politicians. Born in Zambia, Francis is a regular contributor to the BBC. He is the Helen Suzman Foundation's link with the Oxford University Centre for Co-operative and Mutual Enterprise where he is an Associate and currently editing a special edition of the Routledge journal Public Money And Management.
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Raphael de Kadt is Professor of Political Sciences at St Augustine College, Johannesburg. His interests lie in political theory and its implications for policy development and modernisation studies.
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Anthony Egan is a member of the Society of Jesus. He has an MA in History (UCT) and PhD in Political Studies (WITS). He has pursued studies in Philosophy and Theology at the University of London and Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He has lectured at Wits (Political Studies), St Augustine College of South Africa (Applied Ethics), and St John Vianny Seminary, Pretoria (Moral Theology). His current interests include: political leadership, South African politics, moral theology and bioethics.
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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.
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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.
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Stan Kahn taught Sociology at UCT and Wits, and between the two did research at the University of Natal. From the mid 1980’s through to the early ‘90’s he was the Executive Director of the Funda Centre in Soweto, after which he established a Consultancy, working predominantly with NGOs and foreign donors in the Public sector, especially in the Health field.
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John Luiz
John Luiz is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, specialising in International Business Strategy, Business, Society, and Government, and the Economics of Emerging Markets. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999, 2006 and 2011, and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University in 2006. Besides the Ph.D. in Economics, John has completed various other programmes including the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Development Economics, the Wharton Global Faculty Development Programme, and Strategic Management at the Harvard Business School. He is currently Vice President of the National Council of the Economic Society of South Africa.
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Aubrey Matshiqi specialises in national politics in South Africa, political parties, especially the ruling ANC, political succession. A former government spokesperson and a member of the Strategy Unit in the Premier’s Office in Gauteng, Matshiqi’s services as an analyst are used by local and international media, government political parties, policy institutes, academic institutions, foreign embassies and the corporate sector. He writes regularly for different publications including the Business Day.
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Eusebius McKaiser is a political analyst and writer. He is the current host of Talk at Nine on Talk Radio 702. He is an internationally acclaimed competitive debater and public speaker. Eusebius studied philosophy at Rhodes University and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He is a lecturer at the Wits Centre for Ethics and the author of A Bantu in my Bathroom.
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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.
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Charles Simkins is a distinguished economist. He is Vice President and Professor of Economics at St Augustine 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.
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Mary Tomlinson is one of South Africa’s experts in housing policy and delivery.
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Professor Alex van den Heever has been appointed to the Old Mutual Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management as an Adjunct Professor as of 1 January 2011. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from UCT and has spent over twenty years working in health economics and financing, public policy, and social security. This includes participating in the Melamet Commission of Inquiry into Medical Schemes; The Taylor Committee of Inquiry into Comprehensive Social Security; establishing and advising the Council for Medical Schemes; and advice and support to the various processes supporting the implementation of the Taylor Committee of Inquiry recommendations.
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Harry Zarenda is a long-serving member of the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is currently Divisional Head of Economics and Acting Head of the School. He has taught and researched issues relating to Development Economics and has a strong research interest in Trade and Industrial Strategies in South Africa. Harry Zarenda has spent several sabbaticals abroad- at SOAS, Cambridge ( UK), Yale University- and has had extensive experience on the editorial boards of several international and local journals.
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