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| Project 1: The Economic Opportunities of Plant Biomass | ||
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Role: Project Leader “Poverty reduction requires a process of sustained economic growth. Economic growth, in one conception of it, is the process of building complexity through the accumulation of capabilities. A better understanding of the determinants and constraints to economic development through the complexity lens, lies at the heart of this multi-disciplinary programme.” |
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| Kezia Lilenstein | François Steenkamp | Thobeka Ncanywa |
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Role: Programme Manager of the CoP Project. |
Role: Researcher (expertise: Economic complexity; trade; structural transformation and labour markets). |
Role: Researcher (Senior Lecturer in Department of Economics, University of Limpopo) |
| Chris Rooney | Robert Hill | Caitlin Allen-Whitehead |
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| Sarah Marriott | Mira Blumberg | |
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| Role: Communications & Marketing | Role: Assistance Project Manager | |
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| Project 2: Identification and evaluation of downstream options for the recovery of value and/or products from fibre producing plants | ||
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Prof Dee Bradshaw (Honorary) Role: Lead researcher: materials engineering, systems design and multi-criteria decision support “Minerals and Metals are critical to modern life; no carbon neutral economy is possible without them, but society’s perception of mining is mostly negative! However the mining sector has extraordinary potential to help achieve the UNs Global SDGs.” |
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| Jennifer Broadhurst | Tapiwa Chimbganda | Xihluke Mabasa |
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Role: Coordinating the downstream material engineering component of the project; contributing knowledge & understanding to the other components in terms of mining-related impacts and challenges. |
Role: Engineer and researcher in the Mining & Metals industry |
Role: Engineer and Researcher in Sustainable Mineral Resource Development |
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| Project 3: Post-mining rehabilitation - carrots and sticks in the law | ||
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Role: Lead researcher: Legal & Regulatory aspects "Africa needs lawyers born and trained on this continent to make the laws and negotiate the contracts that will see us get more benefit from our vast natural resources." |
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| Herman Meyer | Sandy Paterson | Shamila Mpinga |
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Role: Interdisciplinary Facilitation and Networking |
Role: Lead Researcher: Legal & Regulatory Aspects; Environmental Law Specialist |
Role: Researcher: Mineral Law in Africa |
| Anri Heyns | Louie Van Schalkwyk | Helene Van Niekerk |
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| Role: Researcher: Mineral Law in Africa | Role: Researcher (Dept. of Public Law) | Role: Researcher |
| Reneilwe Kgosana | Aysha Lotter | |
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| Role: Research Assistant: Mineral Law in Africa | Role: Research Assistant | |
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| Project 4: Can fibre-rich plants serve the joint role of remediation of degraded mine land and fuelling of a multi-product value chain? | ||
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Role: Lead researcher for the environmental, bio-based products and bioprocess engineering component of the product. "Biological processes are central to conservation of natural capital while meeting needs of our people." |
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| Michael Solomon | Greg Hangone | Shilpa Rumjeet |
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Position: Chairman of Mineral Economics Division of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. A mining engineer and expert on mining investment risk, member of the Global Agenda Council for the Future of Mining and Metals of the World Economic Forum. |
M.S. Mineral Processing student, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town & Senior Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
Role: Engineer and Researcher |
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CoP Affiliates |
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| Kailash Bhana | Mpho Ndaba | Rudy Dicks |
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| Position: Chief Director at The Presidency. Head of the Secretariat for the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Revitalisation of Distressed Mining Communities at the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME). | Position: Senior Sector Expert for the Economy and Inclusive Growth, in the Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation in the South African Presidency | Position: Outcomes Facilitator: Employment through Inclusive Growth, in the Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation in the South African Presidency |
| Dionne Miles | ||
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| Role: Post-award support and oversight, sourcing further funding opportunities (e.g. GCRF). | ||
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2018 & 2019 Project Members |
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Role: Lead researcher: materials engineering, systems design and multi-criteria decision support |
Toughedah Jacobs - Project Manager (Development Policy Research Unit) |
Bernelle Verster - Coordinating the environmental component of the project, as well as participating in technical research of this component. |
| Mumbi Kimani - Researcher, Economics (DPRU) | Bernard Kengni - Legal Researcher (Dept. of Public Law) |
Safia Khan - Researcher, Economics (DPRU) |
| Prince Destiny Ugo - Researcher, Engineering |
Cheri Young - Legal Researcher, |
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