Associate Prof Auerbach Jahajeeah is an NRF-rated anthropologist working in the Graduate School of Business. Her research explores digital connectivity, inclusive innovation, sensory experience, communication and education futures. She is passionate about how networks and personal experiences shape individual and collective impact, and she has worked around the world exploring personal and collective transformation. Jess has written three books, From Water to Wine: becoming middle class in Angola (also available open access in Portuguese), Archive of Kindness: Stories of everyday heroism in the South African pandemic, and The Politics of Knowledge in Biomedical Sciences (edited with Jonathan Jansen). She is currently working on a fourth book, provisionally entitled Capricious Connections and a Very Long Line: the politics of knowledge infrastructure in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean that explores undersea internet cables that plug Africa into global digital networks. Jess has published extensively in academic journals and the public domain on her work on Angola, Mauritius, migration, social stratification, and higher education futures, and won several awards. She is currently an Iso Lomso Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study. Jess did her undergraduate degree at UCT followed by an MSc in Forced Migration at Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a PhD in anthropology at Stanford University. She has lived and worked in Angola, Brazil, Mauritius, Mozambique, the UK and USA, and is now based mostly in Cape Town. At UCT she directs the MPhil in Inclusive Innovation.

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU). He serves on the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), and holds a SARChI Chair in Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality Research. He is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the UCT College of Fellows. Prof. Bhorat sits on the World Bank Economic Review editorial advisory board, and he is a board member of UNU-WIDER and the National Research Foundation (NRF). He also sits on the UN/WHO’s High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. He served as an economic advisor to two past Ministers of Finance, and previous Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, formally serving on the Presidential Economic Advisory Panel. Haroon previously served as a member of the UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP), and he was Head of Research for the UN’s High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He has his PhD in Economics through Stellenbosch University, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a Cornell University research fellow. His work has been hugely influential in policy making in respect of poverty, inequality and labour market issues in South Africa, and he is one of the most cited South African economists globally.

Geoff Bick is Emeritus Professor of Marketing at the UCT Graduate School of Business, which he joined in 2012. Prior to that, he held the Coca-Cola Africa Chair in Marketing at Wits Business School in Johannesburg. He has published extensively locally and internationally in the field of Marketing, and specialises in Customer Management, Brand Management, and Marketing Metrics, the measurement of the effectiveness of marketing. He has also worked with students and the GSB Case Writing Centre in the development of Teaching Cases and Teaching Notes for business faculty, and many of these have won awards and been published in international journals such as Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies. He has also supervised a number of Masters and PhD students over his academic career, and held the posts of Academic Director at WBS and the GSB, as well as Acting Director of the GSB.

Irwin Brown (MInfSys, PhD) is a Professor of Information Systems (IS) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He has previously held positions as Director of CITANDA (Centre for IT and National Development in Africa), Head of Department of IS, and Deputy Dean Research in the Commerce Faculty. Brown has been recognised with the SAICSIT (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists) Pioneer Award and is a member of the Academy of Science South Africa.

He maintains a broad interest in all areas of IS research, but with a specific focus on understanding and theorising IS phenomena in the contextual conditions of Africa. Brown has contributed to over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, and more than 80 peer-reviewed conference papers. Notable outlets include the European Journal of IS (EJIS), IT for Development Journal, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Telematics & Informatics and leading Association for IS (AIS) conferences such as the International Conference on IS (ICIS) and European Conference on IS (ECIS). He has served several journals including as Editor for the African Journal of IS [AJIS] (2011 – 2020) and IS Sub-Editor of the South African Computer Journal (2007 – 2014). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of AJIS (2021-present) and was a Guest Editor for the 2022 EJIS Special Issue on “Advancing the Development of Contextually Relevant ICT4D Theories”. Brown has to date supervised to graduation 19 PhD students (12 as main supervisor), and 27 Masters students (>=50% dissertation).

Adheesh Budree is an Associate Professor in Information Systems at the University of Cape Town, with a research focus on ICT for Development, the socioeconomics of technology, eCommerce and data analytics. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from UWC, an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London (SOAS), an MA in Creative Writing from UCT, a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education Studies from UCT, a Postgraduate Certificate in Environmental Economics from Rhodes University, a Diploma in Business Analysis from Faculty Training Institute, a BSc Hons in Information Systems from UNISA and a BSc in Computer Science and Business Information Systems from the University of Natal, Durban. Adheesh has published in high-ranking journals and conferences including HICSS, HCI International and IFIP WG9.4. Prior to entering academia Adheesh held various senior roles in both the public and private sector in South Africa and Internationally.

Ailie Charteris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance and Tax. She holds a PhD in Finance from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests lie in the areas of investment finance and capital markets. Ailie has published more than twenty peer-reviewed articles, with her recent work focusing on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock markets and the role of uncertainty in driving share prices. She has several publications in highly regarded international journals including the International Review of Financial Analysis, Energy Economics and Finance Research Letters. Ailie is an associate editor of the Investment Analysts Journal. Ailie teaches investment finance and supervises Masters’ and PhD students covering both investment and corporate finance topics.

Wallace Chigona is a Professor in Information Systems at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Magdeburg, Germany. His research focus is on the use of ICTs for human development and ICT policy. He has researched on the use and impact of ICTs amongst the disadvantaged communities in different African Countries. Wallace has studied different applications of technology in the developing context such as in water and sanitation, education, health, small enterprises, and household.

Wallace has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers; mainly in the area of ICT4D and he is currently on the editorial boards of Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) as well as on the African Journal of Information Systems. Wallace is a South African National Research Foundation (NRF) – Rated researcher. He has supervised to completion five PhDs and 14 masters research students. Wallace has worked on research collaborative research projects with scholars from Tanzania, Malawi, United Kingdom, Switzerland and other South African universities. Wallace’s board memberships include a Trustee for the Reach Trust, Advisory member of the RLabs, Board member of Communication Policy Research South (CPRSouth), UNESCO/Netexplo Advisory Board.

Beatrice Conradie is an applied microeconomist specialised in productivity analysis. Her work involves agriculture and rural development in the Western Cape, e.g. sustainable land use, human wildlife conflict, farm labour markets and total factor productivity. She is the director of the Sustainable Societies Unit in the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town. Rated C1 in 2016, Beatrice regularly publishes with international colleagues, colleagues at other South African universities, colleagues in other departments at the University of Cape Town, as well as with graduate and undergraduate students.

Phillip de Jager (PhD, CA(SA)) is a Professor in the Department of Finance and Tax at the University of Cape Town. He teaches on corporate finance, investments, and research methodology. His research interests are in bank capital, corporate finance, and research about research. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies (JAEE), Meditari Accountancy Research Journal (MEDAR) and the South African Journal of Accountancy Research (SAJAR). Phillip serves as chair of the UCT Retirement Fund and did recent work on excessive pricing conduct for the Competition Commission of South Africa.

Professor Sean Gossel is the Deputy Director: Curriculum at the UCT GSB. His teaching and research expertise lies in the areas of financial economics and financial globalisation. He lectures Public Sector Finance, on the MCom (Development Finance) programme, Macroeconomics on the EMBA, and the Emerging Markets Economic Development elective on the MBA programme. His lectures seek to position finance and macroeconomics in a historical, emerging market, and financial globalization context. This focus carries over into his research and supervision.

Sean’s research has followed two related strands. The first focusses on the intersection between FDI and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa while the second arises from student supervision and investigates topics relating to Sub-Saharan Africa’s financial economic development. To date Sean has published 21 articles in highly ranked international journals and a chapter in an internationally published book. He is currently working on four journal articles and completing a book on FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sean is also a peer reviewer for over 50 international journals, an external examiner for master’s and PhD theses, and regularly writes opinion pieces for the popular press.

Ameeta Jaga (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Organisational Psychology, in the School of Management Studies, at the University of Cape Town and a non-resident fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research. Her research adopts a Southern and decolonial approach to address the geopolitics of knowledge production, focusing on gendered and social class analyses of work-family concerns, particularly among low-income mothers. Using feminist methodologies like photovoice, her participatory action research aims for epistemic justice, influencing workplace breastfeeding supports and policy improvements on care work by recognising and reducing the Motherload.

Salah Kabanda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems. Salah received her Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Zululand and her doctorate degree in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town. She is a C2 NRF rated researcher, with a research focus on the use of IT for development in developing countries. She has made contributions to the following journals: The African Journal of Information Systems, The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, and the Telematics and Informatics journal.

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Harold Kincaid is Emeritus Professor in the School of Economics and has been an A-rated researcher by the NRF for the last ten years. His graduate training was in philosophy of science and economics. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of 17 books mostly the social and behavioural sciences as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His current work is mostly on causal inference in economics and on incentivized economic experiments around risk attitudes, time discounting, subject belief elicitation, and trust.

Kevin Kotzé is an applied macroeconomists with research interests in econometric modelling and data science applications. He publishes regularly in international journals that consider the application of empirical and computational methods. He continues to provide consulting services to a number of Government departments, central banks, parastatels and multinational corporate enterprises, and has served on the board of a prominent data science company, as well as large fund management companies in South Africa & the Channel Isles.

Michael Kyobe holds a PhD in Computer Information Systems and an MBA. Prior to joining academia in 2000, Michael worked as a project manager and IT manager for several years and has consulted extensively with the public and SMEs sectors in various fields of Information Technology. 

His research interests include Mobile Bullying, Computer security and Ethics, business-IT alignment, governance, knowledge management and SMEs. He is a principal researcher for a Project on mobile bullying funded by the NRF. He is a member of the Board of trustees of the Uganda Technology and Management University and serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology. He is a regular key note speaker at International conferences in Canada and Africa. He is also involved in building research capacity in the Commerce faculty (UCT) and at a US-Based ICT-University (Cameroon Campus).

He has published several peer-reviewed articles in local and international accredited journals (including the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, the African Journal of Information systems, Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, & South African Journal of Information Management). Michael supervises 9 PhD and 9 Master’s students and in the past 3 years has graduated 2 PhDs and 9 Master’s students.

Murray Leibbrandt is the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Poverty and Inequality, at the University of Cape Town, a Professor in the School of Economics and the Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit. His research analyses South African poverty, inequality and labour market dynamics using survey data and, in particular, panel data. He is one of the Principal Investigators on the National Income Dynamics Study. He holds the DST/NRF National Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research and Chairs the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF) Standing Committee on Science for the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the University of Cape Town and in 2015 he was elected a Member of ASSAF.

John Luiz is a Professor of International Management and Strategy at the University of Sussex Business School in the UK, and at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, specialising in International Business Strategy; Business, Society, and Government; Institutions and Emerging Markets. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, at the Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy, a Senior Global Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, Germany, a Visiting Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University. He is a member of various professional bodies and was President of the Economic Society of South Africa 2014-2016. He was appointed by the South African Cabinet to the national South African Statistics Council and served from 2013-2018. He is on the Editorial Board of several journals and a referee for over a dozen more.

Besides winning various teaching awards, John has published in excess of 150 publications including around 100 articles in leading journals such as: the Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business; Journal of Business Ethics; Global Strategy Journal; Organization; Governance; The International Journal of Human Resource Management; California Management Review; Journal of International Business Policy; International Business Review; World Development; Oxford Economic Papers; Journal of Development Studies; International Review of Law and Economics; and the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

John works as a consultant and has undertaken work for the United Nations, African Development Bank, UK Department for International Development, Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Industrial Development Corporation, the Department of Trade and Industry, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Johannesburg Development Agency, amongst others. He is active in management training and executive education and consulting at several leading multinational corporations, public entities, and NGOs. 

Dr Brendan Maughan-Brown is an interdisciplinary social scientist with expertise on the uptake of HIV-prevention and treatment services; behavioural economics; the social and behavioural determinants of HIV risk; COVID-19 preventive behaviours and vaccine hesitancy; and survey design. Dr. Maughan-Brown serves as a Chief Research Officer at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town. He is a faculty member for Indlela – a behavioural nudge unit based at the University of Witwatersrand’s Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO). Brendan’s research interests include behavioural interventions to increase demand for health services and products, including COVID-19 vaccines; understanding high HIV incidence rates among young women in Africa; HIV testing; linkage to HIV care; and HIV stigma.

Prof Josephine K Musango is a Professor at the Graduate Business School, University of Cape Town. She is a skilled resource economics and system dynamics professional and a transdisciplinary researcher. Josephine’s research interest entails using system dynamics in managing change and policy-related challenges in the energy transition, the green economy and urban African energy issues. She has worked with professionals in other academic disciplines, governments at multiple levels, industry and the community. She also teaches system dynamics and sustainable development.

Josephine is one of the founding members of the South Africa System Dynamics Chapter. She currently serves as Strategy Oversight and International Collaboration Advisor of the Chapter. Josephine has published over 70 articles in accredited journals, three books, nine chapters in a book and over 80 international and national conference proceedings.

Josephine holds a Transdisciplinary Doctoral in Public Management and Development from Stellenbosch University where she focused on technology assessment of renewable energy sustainability in South Africa.

Ngwenyama, Ojelanki: BSc. CS, MSc. IS, (1983) Roosevelt University; MBA, (1985) Syracuse University, PhD, CS (1988) Thomas J Watson School of Engineering, State University of New York-Binghamton; D.Phil., (HC, 2009) Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Pretoria; Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and a Fellow of The Association for Information Systems. He is Emeritus Professor, Department of Information Systems, University of Cape Town; Professor and Director of the Institute of Innovation and Technology Management, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Professor Ngwenyama is listed in the Top 100 AIS Scholars.

His is on the editorial boards of: European Journal of Information Systems; Information Systems; Journal of AIS, and Information Technology for Development. Professor Ngwenyama has many international visiting professorships: Docent in Computer Science and Information Systems University of Jyväskylä, Finland, since 1994; Visiting Research Professor Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University Denmark, since 1997. Since 2016 he is regular Visiting Research Professor at Institut d’ Economie et Management de Nantes, Université de Nantes, France; In 2015 Visiting Research Professor in Inter-Organizational Information Systems, University of Munster, Germany; In 2012 he was VELUX Visiting Professor of Information Technology Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; and in 2011 he was Andrew Mellon Foundation Mentorship Professor in Information Systems, UCT.

Prof. Ngwenyama has taught at the faculties of Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto; Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Aarhus Business School, University of Aarhus. Denmark. For his list publications see Google Citations.

Eftychia Nikolaidou is Professor of Macroeconomics at the School of Economics at UCT. She teaches macroeconomics and banking and finance related courses, and her research is focused on the economics of security, the determinants and economic effects of public debt, and banking crises. She supervises PhD and Masters’ students in these areas. Professor Nikolaidou serves as a member of the editorial board of Defence and Peace Economics and the Economics of Peace and Security Journal and has published widely. Her recent articles focus on the role of conflict and military expenditure on public debt in sub-Saharan African countries.

Oluwaseyi Olalere is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia. His research interest revolves around corporate finance and banking, financial economics, emerging markets, and contemporary issues in finance. He has extended experience in research, having worked as a Graduate Research Assistant under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme funded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. He has authored numerous research papers and book chapters published in international peer-reviewed, Scopus and ISI-indexed Journals. Most of his research focuses on emerging markets such as the ASEAN economies, BRICS, and emerging countries in Africa. Apart from being involved in seminars and workshops, he has also facilitated the organization of international conferences as part of the organizing committee member. Oluwaseyi is also an active member and administrative assistant of the EMERG Group at the GSB, University of Cape Town. He received the Graduate on Time (GoT) Award for his PhD, having graduated within the stipulated time frame for his study. He is a member of the Association of Skill Development in South Africa, the British Accounting and Finance Association and an associate member of the Malaysian Finance Association.

Jacques Ophoff is a Reader in Cybersecurity and Resilience in the Division of Cybersecurity at Abertay University in the UK, and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town.

His research focuses on cybersecurity, and the related area of information privacy, from individual to national level. This includes a broad range of topics ranging from technical implementations to management, and behavioural factors. Individuals are often considered to be the weakest link in security, and he has a particular research-interest in human factors in (also called behavioural) security. To date he has supervised 70+ postgraduate research projects to completion. His research has been funded by the NRF, South Africa-Sweden University Forum, and Scottish Government.

He is the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Cyber Security research theme co-lead, and current Vice-Chair of IFIP Working Group 11.8, which focuses on Information Security Education. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Intellectual Capital (Securing the Organization’s Knowledge and Information).

Hamieda Parker is a Professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business, and she is currently the Chairperson of the GSB Transformation Forum. She was recently (2022) nominated to serve on the Judge Business School Cambridge University, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Global forum.

Hamieda holds a Chemical Engineering degree, a MBA and a PhD from UCT. Her Doctorate was completed on a Sainsbury Split Site Scholarship with the Said Business School, Oxford University. She has held adjunct/visiting positions at the Wharton Business School Entrepreneurship Centre, University of Pennsylvania and in the Supply Chain Management Department, Michigan State University.

She teaches in the area of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Innovation. Her research on new product development focused interfirm collaboration received several accolades including a “Best Paper from Africa” award and was published in the Journal of Business Research. Hamieda has examined how certain capabilities enable firms to be innovative and resilient to disruptions. Her recent research explores how firms can facilitate learning and innovation by developing a culture of psychological safety. Her research has been published in a number of leading management journals.

Ulrike Rivett is a Professor in the Department of Information Systems. Her research focuses the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to support the development of communities, particularly in the context of delivery of basic amenities and services. Her contribution has been to “connect the dots” between the theoretical knowledge of ICT and the creation of solutions that offer an innovative approach to existing problems. By introducing ICTs in seemingly unrelated fields - such as the health sector, service delivery, and the water sector – she has developed technologies that cross the conventional boundaries of knowledge, decision-making, and stakeholder engagement. She leads the iCOMMS research team, which focuses on understanding the use of ICT systems for the benefit of society by engaging proactively with government, municipalities and rural communities through implementing research findings and increasing impact beyond the academic boundary.

Linda Ronnie holds a PhD in Education (UCT) and Masters’ degrees in Education (Sheffield) and Psychology (Liverpool). She is a Senior Research Scholar and Professor in Organisational Behaviour and People Management at the School of Management Studies. Ronnie has published on key topics such as the experiences of women academics, the psychological contract, and intricacies of the employer-employee relationship and has had recent articles in Sage Open Nursing, South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management, and Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education. She is the proud recipient of the UCT Distinguished Teacher Award, winner of the inaugural Emerald Case Writing Competition, and runner-up of the 2021 Ceeman’s Case Writing Competition. Her current research is a collaborative project with colleagues from the University of the Western Cape on the experiences of women in leadership in higher education. Ronnie is a former Dean of Commerce.

Don Ross is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, Professor and Head of the School of Society, Politics and Ethics at University College Cork, Ireland, and Program Director for Methodology in the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR)  at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. His current areas of research are the experimental economics of risk and time preferences; risk choice in non-human animals, particularly elephants; applied game theory; addictive choice; strategic foundations of sociality; estimating welfare in the face of structural heterogeneity of utility; and unification of sciences using Bayesian models. He obtained his PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1990. He is the author or editor of 164 books and many journal articles. His most-cited publications are Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized, with James Ladyman (Oxford U.P. 2007), and Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation (MIT Press 2005). The latter has been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. He has consulted extensively for government and industry. A book for a general educated audience, The Gambling Animal (with Glenn Harrison, Profile Books), will be published in 2024. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of UCT.

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Lisa Seymour, Professor in the Department of Information Systems (IS) at the University of Cape Town, researches and teaches in the areas of business processes, enterprise systems and IS education; with particular emphasis on regional development in Southern Africa. Her area includes studying how organisations, particularly within the SME and public sector in Africa, can derive benefit from their business processes and enterprise systems. She is also interested in solving educational challenges in this space and in working collaboratively on these challenges. She is director of CITANDA (Centre for IT and National Development in Africa), on the executive of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), principal researcher for ESEFA (Enterprise Systems Education for Africa) and chair of the SAP African Academic Board.

Maureen Tanner is a Professor in the Department of Information Systems. Maureen holds a PhD and a Master of Commerce in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town. She also holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mauritius. She teaches systems analysis and design at UCT. Her research interests lie in Agile software development related issues (for both collocated and distributed teams), UML, software engineering and social aspects of social engineering, global software development, virtual teams, team collaboration, Teaching and Learning, ICT4D, and Social Networks. Maureen is a C1- rated researcher and is also the President-Elect of the Southern African Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AISSAC).

Jean-Paul Van Belle is a professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town. His current research area is Artificial Intelligence with a focus on hybrid AI architectures. His historical research areas included ICT for Development (ICT4D) and the adoption and use of emerging technologies in developing world contexts. He has over 300 peer-reviewed publications including 25 chapters in books and about 60 refereed journal articles. He has been invited to give a number of keynote presentations at international conferences and holds an honorary professorship at Amity University. He has supervised 25 Masters and 16 PhD students to graduation.

Professor Paul van Rensburg MCom(cum laude) PhD, holds the Frank Robb Chair in Finance at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Paul has won numerous academic awards (including the Economics Society’s Best PhD Award in 1997 and the IAJ best article award on two occasions), has supervised five PhDs, 18 full thesis Master’s degrees and published more than forty peer-reviewed articles on asset pricing in local and international academic journals. He is the most referenced South African finance academic and was a full professor at age thirty.

Corné van Walbeek, PhD, is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He is also the Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP).  His research focus is in the economics of tobacco control, specifically on excise taxes and on the impact that this has on the retail price of cigarettes, government revenue, industry pricing, cigarette consumption, and smoking patterns among various demographic groups. He has published widely in economics and public health journals, with 70 articles to date (2024). He has developed the Tobacco Excise Tax Simulation Model (TETSiM), which has been used in more than twenty countries to estimate the likely public health and fiscal impact of a change in the excise tax structure or levels. He has supervised nine PhD students to completion, most with topics in the economics of tobacco control. 

Gizelle is a Professor and PhD graduate in finance at the University of Cape Town. Under the mentorship of Professor Terrance Odean, she was a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at the University of California (Berkeley) in 2014. Her research area is within behavioural finance, particularly as it relates to personal finance and retirement savings. While at UCT, she has published over 45 research journal articles and conference proceedings and been the recipient of multiple best paper awards. An active post-graduate supervisor and leader of the Behavioural Finance and Accounting (BFA) international research group.

She is currently the programme convenor for the Masters in Financial Reporting, Analysis and Governance (FRAG) programme and the PhD programme within the College of Accounting (CoA). Her behavioural and personal finance insights are in high demand as attested by invitations to give key note addresses, be an expert guest on international podcasts, and her widely-read blog, Nudging Financial Behaviour.