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.

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.

Dr Hylton Hollander is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He also holds an Extraordinary Associate Professorship at Stellenbosch University, his alma mater, where he earned his Master of Commerce in Economics cum laude in 2011 and completed his PhD in Dynamic Macroeconomics in 2014. His doctoral thesis, titled “Financial frictions and the business cycle,” led to international publications in the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Journal of Macroeconomics, and Economic Modelling. Before receiving a permanent position at Stellenbosch University in 2016, Dr Hollander joined the African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management at the University of Cape Town as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Dr Hollander currently serves as a Council Member for the Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) and holds a Research Fellowship as Convenor of the Monetary & Fiscal Policy Research Programme at Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA). He is also a Research Fellow with the Financial Stability Unit at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

His research broadly focuses on the interaction between financial markets and the real economy, and their related monetary, fiscal, and macroprudential policy prescriptions. His current research themes include sovereign debt risk and fiscal sustainability, the sources and mitigation of financial instability, and the macroeconomics of distribution and growth.

Dr Hollander has lectured postgraduate courses in Advanced Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Dynamic Economic Theory, Mathematical Economics, Banking & Finance, Financial Economics, and International Finance.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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).

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.

Harald Winkler is a Professor at PRISM in the School of Economics. His research interests are at the intersection of development, climate, social justice and economics, with specific focus on: equity and inequality between and within countries; just (energy) transitions and just adaptation; implications of the global stock-take; and low emission development strategies and nationally determined contributions. Rated A1 in 2025 by NRF, Harald is a leading scholar in his field and publishes regularly in international  journals (see publications on Scopus).  He served as joint Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Climate Policy, and is a member of six editorial boards.  He has actively contributed to assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for over two decades . Harald has served as a member of the SA delegation to the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and was one of two co-facilitators of the technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, African Academies of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences.

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