Faculty

GIBS’ programmes are delivered by highly-qualified, world-class local and international faculty. They are highly experienced, innovative and their teaching is enhanced by relevant business management involvement and rigorous applied research.

As “the business school for business”, GIBS frequently draws on the expertise of leading business people from both the corporate and entrepreneurial environments to complement its full-time teaching faculty.

The result is a multifaceted teaching team that exposes participants on GIBS’ programmes to uniquely different perspectives and challenges their thinking on multiple levels.

PERMANENT FACULTY

Michael Goldman
Prof Karl Hofmeyr
Nicola Kleyn
Gavin Price
Dr Raj Raina
Emmanuel Kodzi
Tashmia Ismail
Dr. Pieter Pretorius

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Adjunct Faculty

Extraordinary Professors

Honorary Professors

International Faculty

Professional Associates

Dr Mandla Adonisi

Mandla Adonisi holds lecturing responsibilities in the areas of Organisation Development Leadership and Strategy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

Prior to this he lectured on a full-time basis in the fields of Organisational Behaviour, Organisation Development, HR Management and Strategy at the Wits Business School and the Public Development Management School. He is a visiting lecturer at the School for Business Leadership, UNISA, and teaches Change Management on the Harvard/WBS Senior Executive Programme.

He is a lead facilitator on the Leadership Development Programme run by the Agricultural Economics Department at the University of Zimbabwe. In 1992, Mandla was awarded the British Council Fellowship for post-graduate studies in business administration at Aston University (UK).

He also has a MA (Psychology), M.M and a DBA. In 1998, he received the Executive Development Diploma from Northwestern University: Kellogg School of Business in Chicago. Mandla sits on the Editorial Advisory Council of the Southern African Business Review Journal of the School of Business Leadership (UNISA) and he serves on the boards of several companies.

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Prof Helena Barnard

Helena Barnard is an associate professor at GIBS and teaches in the areas of innovation, strategy and international business. She completed her PhD at Rutgers University in New Jersey in the USA in 2006 with a dissertation on how firms from developing countries use investment in the developed world as a strategy to increase their competitiveness.

She has published academic research in Advances in Qualitative Research, the Journal of Management and Governance, and the International Journal of Technology Management. She has presented her work at numerous competitive conferences, e.g. the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, European Academy of International Business and Globelics (Global network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence-building Systems).

Helena worked at Home Depot in the USA from 1999 to 2004, first in Instructional Design and then in Logistics. Before going to the USA, Helena worked in the field of Adult Basic Education and Training, teaching, offering facilitator training, developing course materials and acting as examiner for a variety of clients.

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Prof David Beaty

David Beaty is full-time Professor of Business Leadership at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. He teaches in the fields of Leadership, Organisational Behaviour, Change and Transformation.. He obtained his BA from Bryan College, his MA from Middle Tennessee State University, and his PhD from the University of Port Elizabeth and he is a registered Psychologist.

David Beaty has taught over 15 years on MBA and Executive Education Programmes in South Africa and the United States. He is an accomplished speaker and trainer and has consulted for over 20 years with public and private sector firms in South Africa, Europe and the United States. Among honours he received is an appointment as Faculty Fellow at the prestigious Office of the Secretary for Defence (Pentagon) over a five year period.

David Beaty is a prolific writer and has published widely on topics in Leadership, Productivity and Change Management. His articles have appeared in such prestigious journals as the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Journal of Organisational Behaviour, Journal of Managerial Issues, International Management Journal, Journal of Management Education and the Organisational Behaviour Teaching Review. His most recent book is Lessons from South Africa: A New Perspective on Public Policy and Productivity (New York: HarperCollins). He is currently on the Editorial Review Board of the South African Journal of Labour Relations.

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Prof Nick Binedell
Nick Binedell is the Founding Director and Sasol Chair of Strategic Management of the Gordon Institute of Business Science, a Business School situated in Illovo, Johannesburg and established in January 2000, by the University of Pretoria. After an initial career in the industry in the Mining and Manufacturing sectors in sales and general management in the Barlow Rand Group, Nick has focused his career for the past 20 years in the area of business education. His academic qualifications include a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, an MBA from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Rhodes University.
In 1998 he was invited to establish a new business school focused on meeting the individual and corporate needs of business in South Africa. The school has rapidly established itself as a leading business school in South Africa with a strong focus on partnering with leading South African corporates and providing a high level of local and international business education. It was recently ranked as one of the top 40 global executive education providers by the London Financial Times. Nick is a determined traveler and explorer. His earlier roots included extensive travel and by the time he was ten he had lived in Zimbabwe, Germany, Yemen, Kenya, South Africa and Britain. He has spent five years in the United States and in the past three years has traveled to Sydney, Shanghai, Dubai, Prague, Budapest, Lagos as well as European and American cities. His area of expertise is in the field of business strategy formulation and his academic and consulting work, although dominantly in South Africa, includes work in the United States, Europe and Australia. Back to top.

Steve Bluen

Steve was educated at Wits University, where he received a Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology. He also completed the Development Program in Labour Relations at UNISA and an Executive Development Program at the University of Michigan.

Steve was the Head of the Psychology Department and the Professor of Industrial Psychology at Wits University. He spent a sabbatical at Queen’s University, Canada. Steve also ran a consulting business, working with many leading SA companies.

He joined SA Breweries in 1993 as Consulting Psychologist. Since then, he held several positions in both the South African and the Africa & Asia businesses. In 2002, Steve was appointed HR Director of the South African operation and, from 2005, headed up HR in both the Beer and Soft Drinks Divisions of SAB Ltd. In 2007/8 he also served as SAB’s Acting Corporate Affairs Director.

In 2011, Steve joined GIBS as a major-time professor in Human Resources. He also joined the MAC Consulting Group as part-time Associate Director. He has also opened his own consulting practice, consulting in diverse human resource, leadership and organisational development areas.

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Kerry Chipp

Kerry Chipp is a lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. She has an Industrial Psychology Honours Degree, from Wits University, an honours degree in English from UNISA and a Masters degree in Marketing from Wits University. She graduated cum laude in all these qualifications, including first class passes for the statistical components thereof. She runs a research consultancy, Kairos Incite, which has operated for the past ten years, specialising in research design and analysis.

Kerry focused on research in her initial degrees, with an emphasis on Psychometrics, Statistics and Research design. Her passion for analysis was well served through the fields of Psychology and Literature. She spent a year working in Europe and another in Australia.

She added experience at the University of Western Australia as a statistician and for Research International as a marketing research executive. She returned to the University of the Witwatersrand to take up a lecturing position in Marketing in the School of Economics and Business Sciences and to complete her Masters degree in marketing.

Upon returning to academia, she kept up an active consulting practice, undertaking consultation in the marketing research field in a wide range of industries, including fast moving consumer goods companies, insurance, media, government, former parastatals and market research houses. She consults to a number of companies, including AVI, Avusa, Barnard Jacobs Mallet, BBDO, Department of Labour, Famous Brands, GeneralCologne Re, GIBS, Independent Newspapers, Makro, Nandos, the National Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry, Plus94Harris, Rand Water, SAB, SABC, South African Advertising and Research Foundation (SAARF), Coca Cola SABCO, SASOL Oils, SASOL Solvents, TDS and Wimpy. Recently she was involved in the creation of the Wealth Measure for Avusa and the attitude segmentation for SAARF, both of which are now in the public domain.

After lecturing at Wits University for eight years, she left to work full time at her consulting practice and also lecture the MBA research methodology course at GIBS. She has also published one book, E-commerce: A South African Perspective, journal articles in the journals Acta Commercii, Management Dynamics and the South African Journal of Business Management and has three chapters in other academic books. She has presented academic research papers at international conferences in Lisbon, London, Prague and Washington DC and at three conferences closer to home: Cape Town and Johannesburg. She has served on the reviewing boards of two South African journals and been both internal and external examiner to the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), Insurance Institute of South Africa (iisa), the Institute of Marketing Management (IMM) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ). She has facilitated corporate programmes for GIBS, Henley Management College and South African companies in Kenya, Tanzania and Cambodia. She is a member of the South African Marketing Research Association (SAMRA).

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Jonathan Cook

BA (Witwatersrand), BA (Hons) (Unisa), MA (Cape Town), MA (Couns. Psy.) (Unisa).

Jonathan Cook is Director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) of the University of Pretoria. He teaches in the areas of leadership, personal development and organisational behaviour, and contributes to the development of coaching approaches, including creating the GIBS web-based career mentor called neXt (http://www.next.gibs.ac.za/).

He is the past chairman of the Association of African Business Schools and directs two continent-wide management development initiatives on behalf of AABS.

He is a counselling psychologist and his teaching, research and consulting interests include leadership, executive development, team effectiveness, self-assessment and peer feedback in leadership development. He works with local and international organisations to design leadership development processes. He is also chairman of Thornhill Associates (Pty) Ltd, which offers online 360-degree feedback services.

After qualifying as a counselling psychologist, he spent ten years with the National Institute for Personnel Research, finally as Head of Assessment and Counselling. His next fifteen years were at the Wits Business School, where he founded the Management Development Unit and later became director of academic programmes, before joining GIBS in 2004.

He serves on the board of community organisations, including as chairman of Tomorrow Trust and Bizschool.

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Prof John Ford
John was educated at Boys High in Mutare Zimbabwe and thereafter received his B Com (Hons) at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. In 1988 he received his M Com from RAU. John qualified as a CA (SA) with Arthur Young & Co (now Ernst & Young) where he worked for some 12 years. His final position there was that of partner responsible for Computer Audit Education. In 1983 he joined the Wits Business School where he attained the position of Associate Professor in Business Administration (in the areas of Accounting, Control and Management Information Systems) which he held till his departure in December 2004. From 1995 to June 2004, John also held the position of Executive Education Director at the WBS.
He is the founder and convenor of the 2 year H Dip Computer Auditing Course run by Wits University (previously the NACCA course). His consulting interests are in the following areas: Product/Customer Costing and Profitability; Key Ratio and Performance Measures; Management Accounting reporting as well as bridging the gap between users and the finance department. His research interests include: Corporate Governance, Management Control (via costing systems) and the problems encountered by external auditors in their quest to effectively audit increasingly complex systems. A practical interest area is why some firms do well despite all odds and why some do badly despite everything going for them! Currently John is an Associate Professor at GIBS (where he convenes the Finance for Non-financial Managers and Board Leadership programs and developed the Mastering Finance program). He is also the Programme Director of the GIBS Senior Leadership Programme at the Standard Bank Group, a part-time lecturer at various other Business Schools, a Non-executive Director and Audit Committee member of Teba Ltd, and the Honorary Treasurer of the Johannesburg Parent and Child Guidance Clinic. Previously held the position of Chairman of the Audit Committees of Transtel and Datavia (both divisions of Transnet Ltd). Back to top

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science. He joined GIBS in early 2000 to launch the GIBS Forum, an executive business network that hosts weekly business and social events. Michael then initiated and grew a series of one-day executive GIBS conferences and served on the school’s executive committee until 2005, after which he was appointed to the academic staff of the business school. Prior to joining GIBS, Michael served as President of AIESEC in South Africa. Michael has designed, delivered and assessed postgraduate marketing courses on a number of academic and executive programmes. In open public academic programmes, Michael has taught junior and middle-level managers on
everything from short one-day programmes to longer multi-year MBA programmes. In closed customised executive programmes, Michael has worked with junior, middle and senior level managers from a wide range of companies, including PepsiCo, SABMiller Africa & Asia, Murray & Roberts, British American Tobacco SA, Standard Bank Group, Sasol and Barclays. Michael is a member of the Academic Committee and Marks Committee of the business school, and is a regular commentator on marketing and sport-related issues in the popular press and media. Since 2009, Michael has also held the appointment as Adjunct Faculty with the Strathmore Business School in Kenya. Click here for Michael's complete profile.
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Prof Karl Hofmeyr
Karl is a full-time Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. He was a Professor at the University of South Africa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership until 1999. He has been a visiting Professor at the HEC business school in Paris since1997. Professor Hofmeyr’s interests lie in organisational behaviour, leadership and transformation.
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Nicola Kleyn

Nicola holds a B Com, a B Com (Hons) and an MBA (Wits). Apart from a number of academic awards, she received the University of the Witwatersrand’s Distinguished Teacher’s Award for the Faculty of Commerce in May 1996. She is currently completing her DBA at GIBS.

Nicola Kleyn is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Her fields of expertise are in the areas of marketing strategy, customer focus, branding, services marketing, consumer behaviour and ethics.

She lectures on various marketing-related academic and company-specific short courses at GIBS, has hosted and presented at a number of marketing-related conferences, and consults in a private capacity to a limited number of clients in the areas of marketing strategy and customer focus.

She worked previously at Investec Bank where she managed the training function and at Edgars in a store control capacity. She also spent seven years engaged in academic research and lecturing marketing to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Faculty of Commerce at Wits University.

Nicola has published articles in the following: Journal of Business Ethics, International Marketing Review, Journal of Marketing Intelligence and Planning, South African Journal of Business Management, Management Dynamics on the topics of marketing and ethics. She has also presented a number of conference papers at both local and international academic and practitioner conferences.

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Gavin Price
Gavin Price is a full time senior lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. Gavin holds a BA degree in psychology and sociology with a sub-major in statistics, a BProc, LLB as well as an LLM (Banking law) from UNISA. He has an MBL degree from UNISA’s School of Business Leadership. He also completed UCT’s Graduate School of Business’s Executive Development Program. He is currently completing his DBA through GIBS. He is an admitted attorney and besides practicing for a number of years, he worked as a corporate legal advisor in the property development industry before joining the banking and finance industry.In the banking industry, he was the legal manager and chief mediator for the industry’s ombudsman before joining Stannic (Standard Bank) as their Head: legal, compliance and operational risk, where he was also a member of their executive committee.
In addition to his expertise in the banking and finance industry, he has considerable experience and knowledge through his work in the retail and motor industries. He has a particular aptitude for statistics, financial calculations and analytical tools, having won various awards in these areas. His particular fields of interest are risk management, negotiation and mediation, strategy, business ethics, statistics & analytical tools and techniques as well as project finance. Back to top

Dr Raj Raina
BA (Mechanical Engineering), PhD (Management) Dr Raina has over 15 years of strategic management, consulting, and operational experience in India, South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria and France. He has worked for a range of multi-nationals and local enterprises including The World Bank, IBM, Coopers & Lybrand, MTN Group, Continental Tyres and LNJ Group. He has designed and taught full courses on strategy at International Management School Delhi, Fore School of Management Delhi, Graduate Institute of Business Science, Joburg and been guest faculty at WITS South Africa, ESSEC France, Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Delhi.
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Prof Adrian Saville
Adrian has been involved in investment management since 1994 and, over the past 12 years, has managed portfolios and funds in all of the major asset classes, including alternative assets. Since 2001 Adrian has acted as Chief Investment Officer of Cannon Asset Managers, a licensed company that manages funds in all of the asset classes for private and institutional clients; he also manages two listed unit trusts. Prior to this, Adrian established and managed a private investment vehicle from 1994 to 2002, and founded BayHill Capital Advisors, the forerunner to Cannon Asset Managers, in 1998. Adrian has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree (cum laude) and M.Com (cum laude) from the University of Natal. He completed his Ph.D (Economics) at the University of Natal in 1997, for which he was awarded the Economics Society of South Africa’s Founders Medal. He is a UNESCO laureate and a matriculant of Linacre College (Oxford). Alongside his
investment management career, Adrian holds an Associate Professorship in Economics and Finance at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. Adrian is a past Head of Finance at the University of Natal and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the Investment Analysts Society, Economics Society of South Africa and Economic History Society of Southern Africa.
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Prof Margie Sutherland
Margie Sutherland is a full time professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. She has a B.Sc Psychology Honours Degree, from Wits University, A Post Graduate Diploma in Social and Economic Statistics from the University of Manchester and a Masters degree in Human Resource Management from Wits Business School. She completed her Doctorate in Commerce on the retention of knowledge workers at RAU and attended Harvard Business School’s programme on case based teaching. She has worked in the human resource field in a wide range of industries, including mining, manufacturing, hotels, agriculture and retail as well as in the Holding Company of S.A. Breweries.
She has lectured in the Psychology Department at Wits University, the Institute of Personnel Management, for the Institute of Marketing Management, at Wits Business School for fourteen years and at GIBS for six years. Her particular fields of interest are: Employer-of-choice Branding, Talent Management, Retention Management, Career Capital, Organisational Responses to HIVAIDS, Paradox in Human Resource Management, Creating Organisational Energy, Performance Management and the Social Relevance of Business in developing markets. She was appointed an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in 2009 at GIBS where she lectures on all aspects of performance management on both academic and company specific programmes. She consults to a number of companies and works with a number of NGOs. She has won 5 teaching excellence awards. She has published in a wide range of academic journals, has published a number of case studies internationally and has chapters in books. She also serves on a number of editorial committees.
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Prof John M Verster
John Verster is Professor (Research) and Director, DBA programme at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. He also heads his own consulting business and is director of a number of private companies. He spent 15 years as a senior executive with the Standard Bank Group Ltd, where he was Group HR Director and a member of the group executive committee, group management board and other top management committees. He also held senior positions at industry level in the SA banking sector. Prior to that he spent 17 years in research and consulting at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Human Sciences Research Council, where he held senior positions including chief research specialist and director.
He has published extensively both locally and internationally, with over 80 titles and contributions to 10 books. He is the recipient of two prestigious medals for excellence in research, one national and one international and has served as editor or consulting editor on the boards of several academic journals, locally and abroad. He is qualified with: BA (Economics, Psychology, English), University of Pretoria; BA (Hons), University of Stellenbosch; MA (cum laude) and D Litt et Phil, UNISA; AMP, Harvard Business School. Back to top

Prof Mike Ward
Professor Ward holds the ABSA Chair of Finance at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. He began his working career as an engineer with Dowty (SA), and later worked for Stewart, Sviridov and Oliver Consulting Engineers and Shell (SA). He has worked in corporate finance in an investment bank and has been lecturing in the area of finance since 1984. He was the Director of Wits Business School from 1998-2003, and the Director of the University of Pretoria's Graduate School of Management from 2004-2008. He holds a B Sc (Eng) University of Cape Town; MBA and PhD, University of the Witwatersrand. He has taught corporate finance and financial strategy on the Wits/Harvard Business School Senior Executive Programme and has been teaching courses in advanced finance at the Rotterdam School of Management for the last 10 years.
He has acted as a consultant and advisor in corporate valuation and has consulted widely. Professor Ward is an accredited researcher with the NRF and a member of their evaluation panel. He has published several research papers in South African and international research journals and his areas of research interest include corporate valuation, market timing, and capital markets. He is on the editorial board of the Investment Analyst's Journal and is also a research referee to a number of other academic journals. Publications Articles Books Back to top

Dr Lyal White
Dr. Lyal White is the Director of the Centre for Dynamic Markets (CDM) at the Gordon Institute for Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria, where he is also a Senior Lecturer in economics focusing on Africa, Asia and Latin America. As Director for the CDM he also leads the business network meetings, executive forums that meet monthly to discuss issues of interest and importance in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Dr. White’s research specialises in political economy issues in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has worked with a range of organisations across the globe, most recently Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, the Brenthurst Foundation, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD), SA the Good News and the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA) where he is a Research Associate.
Dr. White has a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Cape Town and holds an MA in International Relations (Cum Laude) from the University of Stellenbosch. In both cases he focused on the field of Political Economy.From January to May 2008 Lyal White was the acting Executive Director at the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) in Rwanda where he was responsible for establishing the institute and launching its research programme. From July to December 2007 he was a Visiting Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. In 2006 and 2007 Lyal White was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of California, Berkeley. He also lectured International Political Economy (IPE) at the University of Cape Town. Prior to this, he was a Senior Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), based in Johannesburg, from 2002 to January 2006. There he headed both the Asia and Latin America programmes. SAIIA is a non-government research think-tank that focuses on foreign policy, governance and trade related issues, with a particular emphasis on African affairs. During his time there Lyal conducted a range of diversified research projects and provided analytical information and advice to private organisations and government institutions, which contributed toward policy formulation and debate in South Africa. The Asia and Latin America programmes were, at the time, two of the longest running programmes at SAIIA, and the Latin America programme was the only one of its kind in South Africa - focusing on applied and policy relevant research in the Latin American region. Dr. White is widely published in local and international journals, newspapers and books on themes ranging from South-South co-operation to business practice and economic reform in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is a regular commentator on television and radio news media. Over the past ten years he has participated in and coordinated a number of working groups in both government and private sector circles, and collaborated closely with embassies, think-tanks and academic institutions around the world. He has travelled extensively, with a unique exposure and insight into Latin America. His most recent research projects cover themes ranging from the investment environment in Africa and Latin America and its relevance to South African business interests, to reform, growth and planning for development. He has also done extensive comparative work related to economic growth, development, national competitiveness and overall trajectory of dynamic markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This includes research and insights into important companies and organisations from those dynamic markets. Dr. White has also done substantial work on the rise and role of emerging powers in the new global political economy, with a particular emphasis on Brazil in Africa. Some of his recreational interests include photography, wine, cooking and outdoor activities like mountain biking, hiking and wildlife viewing. As a sporting enthusiast he has played and coached top-level field hockey and plays both tennis and squash socially. He enjoys a variety of literature and music and is the proud owner of two Staffordshire Bullterriers, Frida and Tony. Publications Articles Books Back to top

Prof Albert Wöcke

Albert is an Associate Professor and Executive Director: Faculty at the Gordon Institute of Business Science of the University of Pretoria. Albert has been on the GIBS faculty since 2000, which he joined after a career as a trade union official. As the Assistant General Secretary: Collective Bargaining he headed up the Collective Bargaining function of the union and was a founding member of the Public Service Bargaining Council and represented the labour movement in the Public Finance and Monetary Policy Chamber of Nedlac (the National Economic Development and Labour Advisory Council).

His academic qualifications are BA (Honours cum laude) and MA in Political Science from the University of Pretoria and an MBA and Phd from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Albert is a recognised researcher with a National Research Foundation (NRF rating of C3) and has published academic and other articles in South Africa and internationally, including the International Journal of Human resource Management, Journal of International Management, Thunderbird International Business Review, and the South African Journal of Business Management. He is a member of the American Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business and the South African Institute of People Management. He regularly reviews for international and local academic journals.

Since joining GIBS, Albert has taught in the areas of International Business Strategy and Human Resources, Strategy and Organisational Behaviour. His current research interests include the process and strategies of Emerging Market firms going global, the design and impact of HR strategy in Multi National Corporations and Talent Management in Emerging Markets. He has had papers presented at the American Academy of Management and the Royal Geographic Society and he has taught in Botswana, Kenya, Ghana, the UAE, Hong Kong and Namibia. He consults widely and clients have included MTN, UTI, South African Revenue Services, Zurich Reinsurance, PPC and government departments including Foreign Affairs and Forestry and Water.