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Kurt April

Kurt April

Kurt April is a Sainsbury Fellow and Professor of Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion at the GSB. He is also is an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Programme Director and Faculty Member of DukeCE, Duke University. A prolific writer, Kurt has published 8 books and 150 book chapters and articles on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge management.
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Misheck Mutize

Misheck Mutize

Misheck Mutize is a lecturer of finance at the GSB. Currently a PhD candidate, his research interests include credit rating; monetary economics; financial modelling; financial analysis and option valuation approaches.
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Martin Hall

Martin Hall

Martin Hall holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Royal Society of South Africa; an emeritus professor at the GSB and senior scholar in Residence at the MTN Solution Space.
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Sean Gossel

Sean Gossel

Sean Gossel’s expertise at the GSB lies in the areas of finance, financial economics, and financial globalisation. He lectures finance on the MBA, macroeconomics on the EMBA; financial risk management, and corporate finance and investment on the MCom (Development Finance); as well as capital flows and emerging markets as an MBA elective.
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Mlenga Jere

Mlenga Jere

Mlenga Jere is an associate professor of marketing and academic director at the GSB. His areas of expertise include marketing management and marketing communication strategies. He has a PhD in business administration, a PGDip in Higher Education & Training, an MBA and a BBA degree.
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Elli Yiannakaris

Elli Yiannakaris

Elli Yiannakaris is the director of the Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development (RAA). Her expertise and interests are in youth, entrepreneurship education, inclusive education, livelihoods development, soft skills development and the school to career transition.
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Dr Mzukisi Qobo

Dr Mzukisi Qobo

Dr Mzukisi Qobo is an associate professor at the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg. He is also a director at Tutwa Consulting Group. He is an expert and thought leader on South Africa’s political economy, public affairs and international relations.
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Tsakane Ngoepe

Tsakane Ngoepe

Tsakane Ngoepe is the impact investment analyst at the Bertha Centre. In addition to supporting the work of the impact investment team on projects across a variety of sectors, she acts as a researcher and writing assistant to Julia Balandina Jaquier for the second edition of her book Guide to Impact Investing (for high net worth individuals and family offices).
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Tine Henriksen

Tine Henriksen

Tine Henriksen is the impact investment project manager at the Bertha Centre. She has spent her time focusing on building new partnerships between the public, private and civil society sectors to deliver positive social impacts.
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Nobhongo Gxolo

Nobhongo Gxolo

Nobhongo Gxolo is a Cape Town-based freelance writer and cook. She started writing professionally for the likes of Elle Magazine and the Mail and Guardian since 2009. She also hosts a monthly food club, Third Culture Experiment, offering people a space to meet, eat, and connect over conversation and a three-course meal. She’s busy working out a way to merge these passions.
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Lorelle Bell

Lorelle Bell

Lorelle Bell is a communication consultant to the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at UCT (d-school) and writer on design thinking and innovation. Her experience includes strategic communication for a range of organisations including the corporate, academic, nonprofit and public sectors.
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Sarah-Anne Arnold

Sarah-Anne Arnold

Sarah-Anne Arnold developed and established the Solution Space at the GSB. She originally trained as a designer at Central Saint Martins, University of London and has an MBA from the GSB. Her expertise and interests are in business model innovation, innovation adoption, entrepreneurship ecosystems and building partnerships between academia and industry.
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GSB kicks off 50th celebrations with a flourish

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Senior lecturer, Linda Ronnie, talking to Dianne Horwitz and former GSB faculty member, Steve Burgess.
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UCT GSB director, Professor Walter Baets addresses guests in Cape Town.
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Linda Fasham and Cassim Motala at the Johannesburg 50th Celebrations.
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Advocate Rod Solomons talking to UCT vice-chancellor, Max Price.
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GSB founding director, Dr Bob Boland.
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Simryn De Jager, Peter Wingrove, Saskia Hickey
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As one of South Africa’s oldest business schools, the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has a lot to celebrate. A pioneer from the get-go, 50 years down the line it can justly claim to be Africa’s leading business school, with more rankings and accreditations than any other school on the continent.

Initially modelled on the conventional North American-style business school, the GSB has over the past 50 years charted its own, distinctly African path. And it continues to push the boundaries of business and management education on the continent.

To launch its 50th celebrations, the school hosted stylish cocktail parties in Cape Town and Johannesburg – as well as a class reunion for the Class of 1966, the first full-time MBA class, in February and March 2016. Two past directors of the school: Bob Boland and Frank Horwitz were able to attend some of these events and guests were treated to a flamenco dance spectacular curated by Professor Walter Baets, current director of GSB, who uses the dancers as a metaphor for how to take a more values-based approach to business today.

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Grant Sieff

Grant Sieff

Grant Sieff is the CEO of IC Growth Group, and Infochoice Growth (Pty) Ltd. He is also a visiting professor and a part-time senior lecturer in strategy and international business. He specialises in strategy development and delivery, change management and in leadership performance and growth in executive programme delivery.
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Linda Ronnie

Linda Ronnie

Linda Ronnie is a senior lecturer in People Management and Organisational Behaviour at the GSB. Her research interests include the attraction, retention and motivation of talented, capable employees seen through a generational lens and the role of the psychological contract in shaping individuals’ working lives.
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Raine Naudé

Raine Naudé

Raine Naudé is a research assistant to Professor Anton Eberhard, as well as junior research fellow in the Management Programme in Infrastructure Regulation and Reform Department, with a focus on renewable energy research across sub-Saharan Africa.
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Susan Mann

Susan Mann

Susan Mann is a writer and teacher. She is the author of two novels, and works with the Jung Platform where she has written courses and blogs. She is currently engaged in making depth psychology accessible to
young women.
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Morea Josias

Morea Josias

Morea Josias is a career services manager at the GSB. She manages and executes career advisory activities in order to build relationships between students and employers.
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Saskia Hickey

Saskia Hickey

Saskia Hickey is the Market Intelligence and Strategy Manager at the GSB and an MBA graduate of the school. Formerly a radio broadcaster and presenter with Heart FM and motivational speaker, she has an enduring interest in women’s empowerment and business development.
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Anton Eberhard

Anton Eberhard

Anton Eberhard is a Professor at the GSB where he directs the Management Programme in Infrastructure Reform and Regulation. His research and teaching focuses on the restructuring and regulation of the electricity sector, investment challenges and linkages to sustainable development.
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Warren Nilson

Warren Nilson

Warren Nilson is co-founder of Organization Unbound, senior lecturer in social innovation at the GSB and an associate of the school’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Norman Faull

Norman Faull

Norman Faull is the founding director of the Lean Institute Africa and an Emeritus Professor at the GSB. A passionate advocate of lean management, he has been instrumental in applying its principles to areas outside the automotive sector in public sector environments – including hospitals, courts and the DTI.
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Carel Alberts

Carel Alberts

Carel Alberts is an independent writer with 20 years’ experience in business-to-business journalism. He has written extensively on the entire spectrum of information and communication technologies for audiences including enterprises, consumers, governments, funders and industry.
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Ralph Hamann

Ralph Hamann

Ralph Hamann is a professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business and academic director of the Network for Business Sustainability South Africa.
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Francois Swanepoel

Francois Swanepoel

Francois Swanepoel is a recent graduate of Vega School of Brand Leadership. He works as an in-house photographer for Rothko and has a passion for telling powerful stories through the medium of photography.
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Tracy Gilpin

Tracy Gilpin

Tracy Gilpin’s feet remain firmly planted in the fields of journalism and communications, she is a storyteller at heart, applying this yin and yang of writing to both her corporate work and her novels.
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Viljoen du Plooy

Viljoen du Plooy

Viljoen du Plooy has extensive experience in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship, business strategy and business engineering initiatives. A product manager at Zapper.com, he completed his MBA at the UCT GSB and is passionate about taking on new business ventures – specifically concept development and business establishment.
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Sifiso Dabengwa

Sifiso Dabengwa

Sifiso Dabengwa is group president and CEO of MTN Group Limited – sponsors of the MTN Solution Space at the UCT GSB. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering, an MBA and an EDP.
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Stephen Peterson

Stephen Peterson

Stephen Peterson has held several faculty and research positions at Harvard University and introduced and directed its prestigious programme in Public Financial Management for 24 years.
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Nceku Nyathi

Nceku Nyathi

Nceku Nyathi is a senior lecturer in the Allan Gray Centre for Values Based Leadership at the UCT GSB. With a pedigree in organisational studies and leadership theory, he has a deep interest in the role of values in transforming business on the continent.
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Lisa Templeton

Lisa Templeton

Lisa Templeton is a photojournalist, editor and award-winning travel writer. With two decade’s experience in the field, she has worn the sensible shoes of the news journalist and the spike heels of the corporate communications manager, covering a range of industries.
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Stephanie Giamporcaro

Stephanie Giamporcaro

Stephanie Giamporcaro is the research director and a senior lecturer at the UCT GSB. With a special interest in responsible investing, she is the lead researcher on the Africa Investment for Impact Barometer, an annual publication that offers a snapshot of the investment for impact market in Africa.
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John Luiz

John Luiz

John Luiz is a professor at the UCT GSB and director of the International Relations Office at the school. In 2013, he was elected president of the Economic Society of South Africa and was appointed to the national South African Statistics Council.
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Bekezela Phakathi

Bekezela Phakathi

Bekezela Phakathi is a Cape Town-based journalist and freelance researcher. A Rhodes University Journalism and Media Studies graduate, he has a particular interest in economics and politics and writes on these topics for the Business Day.
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Stelio Zakkas

Stelio Zakkas

Stelio Zakkas is a director of Master BEE and Master Training. Master BEE assists small and medium-sized companies with BBBEE strategy and implementation. A qualified attorney and serial entrepreneur, Stelio completed his MBA at the UCT GSB in 2013.
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Dr Francois Bonnici

Dr Francois Bonnici

Dr Francois Bonnici is the co-founder and director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the UCT GSB. He originally trained as a medical doctor, has an MBA from Oxford’s Said Business School, and a Master’s in Global Leadership conferred by the World Economic Forum.
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Mills Soko

Mills Soko

Mills Soko is an associate professor at the UCT GSB specialising in international trade and doing business in Africa. He convenes the UCT GSB business roundtable series, which seeks to facilitate much needed debate on key social and economic issues.