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CDE's Board provides the organisation with strategy and policy advice and oversees its governance functions. The members of the Board are:
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Laurie Dippenaar (chairman) was appointed as the first Chief Executive of FirstRand Ltd in May 1998. He serves as Chairman of Momentum Group and OUTsurance and is on the board of FirstRand, FirstRand Bank Holdings and Rand Merchant Bank Holdings. Laurie Dippenaar holds a number of leadership positions in business organisations. He is a trustee of the Business Trust and serves on the Board of Governors of Business Leadership South Africa, a business organisation representing the sixty largest domestic and multi-national corporations in South Africa. He was President of Business Leadership South Africa (then the South Africa Foundation) in 2002 and 2003. He is a member of the Big Business Working Group that meets regularly with the President and senior members of Government. In addition to his business leadership commitments, Laurie Dippenaar is on the governing bodies of several educational institutions including the University of Pretoria and Michaelhouse school. |
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Ann Bernstein is CDE’s Executive Director.
Click here for her biography.
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Judge Fikile Bam obtained the degree of BA (Law) from the University of Cape Town (1960) as well as B Proc (1975) and LLB (1976) from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He was admitted as an advocate in 1978 and joined the Johannesburg Bar until his deportation to the Transkei, where he practised from 1980 to 1985. He was chairman of the Transkei Bar in 1984 and 1985, director of the Legal Resources Centre in Port Elizabeth in 1985 and became a member of IMSSA (Independent Mediation Services of South Africa) in 1987. He sat as an additional member of the Industrial Courts in both the Ciskei and the Transkei, becoming a member of the Eastern Cape Bar in 1992. He also sat as a commissioner of the Goldstone Commission during 1992 and 1993. He joined the Johannesburg legal firm of Deneys Reitz as a partner in 1994, specialising in constitutional law and was appointed judge-president of the Land Claims Court in 1995. Judge Bam is a board member of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, Project Literacy and the Trust for Educational Advancement in South Africa. He was awarded a LL.D by Rhodes University in 2001 and is currently Professor Extraordinary of Stellenbosch University. |
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Elisabeth Bradley was educated at the University of the Orange Free State (B Sc) and London University (M Sc). She was appointed Managing Director of Wesco Investments Ltd in 1986 and Executive Chairman in July 1991. She is also Chairman of Metair Investments Ltd. In December 2002 she was appointed non-executive chairman of Toyota SA Ltd, and she holds directorships of The Standard Bank Group Ltd, Tongaat Hulett Ltd, Sasol Ltd and Anglogold Ashanti Ltd. She is Deputy Chairman of the SA Institute of International Affairs, Chairman of the audit committee of Tongaat Hulett Ltd, and a member of the Council of the University of the Witwatersrand. Elisabeth Bradley was founding chairman of CDE’s Board and served in that capacity from 1995-2006. |
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Cas Coovadia is the Managing Director of the Banking Association of South Africa. He also heads the Executive Secretariat of the SADC Banking Association, which is made up of the national associations of banks from SADC countries. He played a central role in the negotiations leading to the signing of the Financial Services Charter and is playing a critical role in the implementation of agreements reached in the Charter. Cas Coovadia is Vice-Chairman of the African Union for Housing Finance and the Trust for Urban Housing Finance and chairs the National Business Initiative and the Johannesburg Civic Theatre. He is also Business Vice-President of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). |
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Mark Cutifani was appointed to the Board of AngloGold Ashanti on 17 September 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2007.
Mark has considerable experience in mining, having been associated with the industry since 1976. Prior to joining AngloGold Ashanti, he held the position of Chief Operating Officer at CVRD Inco, a Toronto based company, where he was responsible for Inco’s global nickel business and Chief Operating Officer of Inco Ltd in Canada prior to CVRD’s takeover of Inco.
Prior to his Vale and Inco roles he held senior executive positions with the Normandy Group, Sons of Gwalia, Western Mining Corporation, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines and CRA (Rio Tinto). Mark is a mining engineer by training with several published papers and presentations. In his 32 years in operations, business development and corporate roles he has had responsibilities across 6 continents, more than 25 countries producing more than 20 commodities. |
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Prof Brian Figaji retired as the Vice Chancellor of the Peninsula Technikon in Cape Town at the end of 2004. He currently serves (2005 – 2009) as South Africa’s representative on the Executive Board at UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) He is a director of companies and serves on a variety of education-related trusts and NGOs. Before joining Peninsula Technikon in 1980 Prof Figaji spent ten years working as a consulting civil engineer and as a site agent for a large civil engineering construction company. He also taught at a high school in Cape Town for a short while. Prof Figaji is a Fellow of the SA Institute of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the SA Society for Professional Engineers, a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering and a member of the SA Academy of Science. He served two terms as a member of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). Prof Figaji is a graduate of the universities of the Western Cape, Cape Town, UNISA and Harvard. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Coventry in the UK and California State University.
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Fay Hoosain
Fay Hoosain is the Group Head of Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Sasol Limited. Fay holds a BA degree (International and Comparative Politics & Private Law) and an LLB degree both from the University of Cape Town and a LLM from the University of South Africa. She was formerly Sasol’s chief legal advisor, competition law and was responsible for establishing Sasol’s group-wide competition law centre of expertise. Prior to joining Sasol, she worked for Shell as legal counsel and served as special legal advisor to the South Africa Petroleum Industry Association (SAPIA). In 2008, her outstanding performance and contribution to the liquid fuels sector in her work within SAPIA and BUSA (Business Unity South Africa) earned her the Shell Oil Products Africa Vice President’s Award in the category of Shareholder Value.
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Sipho Maseko was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand (BA, LLB). He previously worked at Werksmans and the Financial Services Board (Financial Markets). He joined BP in 1997 and held various roles, both in South Africa and London. He then went on to serve as Chief Operating Officer, BP Africa BU and Deputy CEO BP Africa. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of BP Africa.
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Ishmael Mkhabela is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Interfaith Community Development Association (ICDA), an agency which, for the past sixteen years, has pioneered and promoted broad-based relational community organising and community conflict resolution in South Africa. In 2001 Mkhabela founded ICDA Housing and Development Consultants (Pty) Ltd, a business arm that provides urban development services to a range of clients, including business, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that support socio-economic development as well as housing and urban renewal programmes. Mkhabela chairs the boards of a number of trusts and companies, including the Johannesburg Social Housing Company, the Central Johannesburg Partnership, the Steve Biko Foundation and the Kabo Development Trust. |
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Soto Ndukwana took an interest in politics at an early age and was arrested and sent to Robben Island at age 19, where he served a ten-year sentence. While in prison he completed matric, a BA and a B.Com (Hons). After his release he completed a B.Admin and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education. His initial employment was at Munich Re Insurance Group of South Africa from 1987 – 1989. From 1990 to 1993 he was employed by South African Breweries (SAB) where he was a Board member responsible for Corporate Affairs/Marketing. He held this position until his move to Makana Investments in 1998 and remained a non-executive Director of SAB Ltd until 2000. Together with Peter-Paul Ngwenya, he set up Makana Investment Corporation (MIC) (Pty) Ltd. Soto Ndukwana served as MIC’s Chairman and CEO until he resigned in 2003 to assume his current position of Executive Chairman of IFULA Holdings. |
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Prof Wiseman Nkuhlu was educated at the Universities of Fort Hare, Cape Town and New York. He was Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Transkei from 1987 to 1991. From 1998 to 2002 he was the first Chairman of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). He joined the Independent Development Trust as Chief Executive in 1990 and was Chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) from 1993 to 2000. He served as economic advisor to President Thabo Mbeki and as Chief Executive of the Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) from 2000 to 2005. He is currently Chairman of Metropolitan Insurance, Kagiso Trust Investments, Bigen Africa Group and Pan-African Capital, as well as a director of AngloGold Ashanti and Datatec Ltd. Prof Nkuhlu has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of the Free State, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Pretoria and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. |
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Simon Ridley attended the University of Natal where he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1980 and a Higher Diploma in Accounting in 1981. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982. In 1994 he completed an Advanced Management Programme at Oxford University. He left the computer audit department at KPMG in 1984 and then held various finance positions at Momentum Life, United Bank and ABSA before joining Standard Bank in 1999 as Director, Finance and Operations in Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank (now Standard Bank: Corporate and Investment Banking). He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Standard Bank Group in 2002. |
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Eugene van As joined Sappi in December 1976 as the Managing Director of Sappi Kraft (Pty) Ltd and was appointed to the board in January 1977. He was appointed Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Sappi Ltd in 1978 and Executive Chairman in 1991. He became Non-executive Chairman on his retirement as Chief Executive in 2003. He is also a trustee of a number of education and research bodies.
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Tony van Kralingen started as a trainee at South African Breweries (SAB) in 1982. During his stay he worked in Human Resources and Brand Management before taking up a position as General Manager, United Breweries in 1989, followed by General Manager, Natal in 1992. He was appointed to the Beer Division Board in 1994 as Operations Director and Marketing Director in 1997. In January 2000 he moved to Prague, Czech Republic, as Chief Executive Officer of Pilsner Urquell Group and in 2001 responsibility for European Procurement and Slovakia were added to his portfolio. He was appointed as Managing Director, SAB Ltd in 2003. In September 2008 he was appointed as Director: Supply Chain and Human Resources, SAB Miller Plc. |
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