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GOVERNANCE COMMITTEEThe committee of the Unit for Corporate Governance in Africa consists of:
Prof Eon Smit Prof Smit is the director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School. He lectures on Business Statistics, Business Forecasting and Derivative Instruments. He is a member of the Control Committee of the Bureau for Economic Research, chairperson of the Management Committee of the Institute for Futures Research, chairperson of the Association of Graduate Schools of Business and Management, and a director of USB Executive Development (USB-ED). He holds a DComm degree from Stellenbosch University. Smit is a member of the following associations: the South African Statistical Association, the Economic Association of South Africa, the Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys, the Southern African Finance Association, and the South African Institute for Business Scientists. He is editor of the Journal of Studies in Economics and Econometrics and of the South African Journal of Business Management. He acts as consultant and adviser for various leading South African companies and organisations. Prof Johann de Villiers Prof De Villiers is dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University. He holds a PhD degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He also holds a CFA and degrees from the University of Stellenboch, namely MBA and BEng. Prof Bob Garratt (chairman of the Unit) The Unit is chaired by Prof Bob Garratt, international corporate governance expert, author and professor extraordinaire at the USB. Prof Bob Garratt is a company chairman, consultant and academic working on corporate governance, board and director performance, and strategic thinking issues. He is based in London and works on five continents. His consulting experience of board and business issues covers organisations from large corporates to family businesses, professional practices, parastatals, non-profit organisations, central governments and local communities. He is a founder member of The Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. He is on the Chartered Accreditation Committee, Examinations Board, leads the Developing Strategic Thought programmes, and is an External Examiner of the Institute of Directors, London. He helped to form the China-EEC Management Programme in Beijing in 1983 (the first Chinese MBA), and The Learning Symposium group. He has worked with many financial services institutions including the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority on corporate governance for Banking Supervisors, and is working with the IMF in Washington on its governance. He is visiting professor at the Cass Business School, City University, London, where his work spans the Centre for Research in Corporate Governance, and the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change. He is professor extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch Business School. In 2002 he won the Shareholder Value corporate governance essay prize sponsored by the European Business Forum and PwC/IBM; and in 2004 The Academy of Corporate Governance, Hyderabad, Writing Excellence prize. His books include: The Fish Rots From The Head: The Crisis in our Boardrooms (1996 and 2003); Developing Strategic Thought (ed) (1994 and 2003); Learning to Lead (1991); The Learning Organisation: Developing Democracy At Work (2000); and Twelve Organising Capabilities: Valuing People At Work (2000). Thin On Top: Why Corporate Governance Matters was published in 2003. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Journal of Business Studies; Development and Learning in Organisations; Action Learning, and Organisations and People. Daniel Malan (head of the Unit) The head of the Unit is Daniel Malan, senior lecturer in Ethics and Governance at the USB. He is also a member of the International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE), as well as a member of the Southern African Institute of Directors' portfolio committee on Sustainability. He serves on the editorial board of the African Journal of Business Ethics. Daniel is an associate director in the Sustainability Services Unit of KPMG South Africa, and the regional coordinator for Ethics and Integrity Services of KPMG Forensic in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. His focus areas include the development and implementation of ethical codes, ethical climate measurements and risk assessments, ethics training, corporate governance and sustainability reporting. Prof Philip Sutherland Prof Philip Sutherland holds BComm (1988) and LLB (1990) degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (1997). He worked as a student assistant in Germany in 1996 and returned to South Africa in 1997 to become senior lecturer in the Department of Mercantile Law at the University of Stellenbosch. He was promoted to associate professor (2001) and professor (2005) in the same department. He teaches and researches in the areas of corporate, competition and financial services law. He has published a number of articles and is co-author of the book Competition Law of South Africa. He does extensive consulting and opinion work in the area of business law, is a member of the Financial Services Board (since 2001) and has just been appointed to the Actuarial Governance Board (2007). Prof Johan Hattingh Prof Johan Hattingh is professor of Philosophy and also vice-dean of Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University. He has extensive experience in the teaching of Practical Logic and Critical Thinking Skills, Philosophy of Culture, Hermeneutics, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Poststructuralist Thought. His Master's degree dealt with Martin Heidegger's critical conception of technology, while his doctoral dissertation explored the philosophical problem of the relationship between art and morality. During the past ten years he specialised in Applied Ethics, Ideology Critique, Development Ethics, and particularly in Environmental Ethics. On post-graduate level Prof Hattingh teaches Environmental Ethics in two Master's Programmes at Stellenbosch University. In his current research and teaching, Prof Hattingh focuses on the problem of integrating ethical considerations in environmental decision-making, and he further envisages exploring indigenous knowledge systems with a view to stimulate the development of home-grown environmental ethics appropriate to conditions and concerns in southern Africa. Prof Hattingh is editor of the section on Environmental Ethics of the newly established Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, Ethics and Action. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (since January 2007) based in The Netherlands. He is also a member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) of UNESCO (since 2004). He has more than 40 academic publications and about 70 papers at academic conferences to his credit. |
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