UCT GSB Faculty

Adjunct Associate Professor

Mignon is an Associate Professor at TIAS Business School, University of Tilburg, and serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business. She is also a Research Associate at Henley Business School. Her teaching focuses on Marketing Strategy, and her research centres on Consumer Behaviour, Branding, and Marketing Strategy, with a particular emphasis on Luxury Branding.

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Laurence possesses extensive experience in Services, B2B, and Strategic marketing management, having held senior leadership roles in general management and directorships within the homebuilding, property development, and financial services sectors. His academic contributions include serving as Program Director for the Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration and the Master of Management in Strategic Marketing programmes at leading South African business schools.

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Xolisa has 20 years of practical experience in African financial services, 11 of which have been in sustainable finance. He is head of sustainability operations and impact investing at Sanlam. He is a sponsor-appointed member of the Sanlam Umbrella Retirement Fund’s Investment and Transformation committees. Xolisa is also an employee-elected member of Sanlam’s staff retirement fund’s management committee.

Adjunct Professor

Stéphanie is a Full Professor of Sustainable Finance at KEDGE Business School and an Adjunct Professor at the UCT GSB. With a background in the sociology of markets and finance and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris Cité, her research is rooted in organizational theories. Stéphanie's research work focuses on sustainable finance and financial innovation.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Portia Heynes is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business and founder of Upliftment Inspired Consulting. As a pracademic, she partners with organisations across diverse sectors in Africa and globally, focused on unlocking human and organisational potential through systems thinking. She holds a Doctor of Management in Technology and Innovation and developed a Systemic Employability Framework that reframes the narrative from employment to employability.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Steven Kuo is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business(GSB), specialising in international political economy and China–Africa relations. His research and teaching examine the political economy of infrastructure, resource extraction, and development, with a particular focus on the role of Chinese actors in Africa.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Addisu A. Lashitew, PhD (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Enterprise at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Adjunct Associate Professor

David Makovah is one of Africa’s leading business facilitators - an award-winning educator at top global business schools and an Adjunct Associate Professor known for turning ambitious strategy into bankable action. His work spans boardrooms, start-ups and public institutions across the continent, engaging founders, CEOs and ministers, with additional client experience across Europe, India, the United States and China.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Sephooko Ignatius Motelle is a Principal Economist in the Development Impact Measurement Department (CDI) at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). In this role he oversees the implementation of IFC’s development impact management system including its enhancements, development of its implementation toolkit (e.g., frameworks, guidelines, and IT solutions), and reporting on impact results.

Adjunct Professor

Martín Rodríguez Pardina holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Córdoba (Argentina) and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He is currently the Managing Partner of Ad Hoc Consulting . Martín has over 30 years of experience leading international projects in the areas of private sector participation and infrastructure sector regulation.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Sarita Sehgal is a partnering strategist with over 20 years of experience across the UN, NGOs, philanthropy and private sector in Europe and Africa. She brings deep knowledge of the global health and development landscape, having advised and worked directly with CEOs, UN and government leaders, as well as activists, youth, and marginalised communities. Her research focuses on cross-sector collaboration and how to effectively navigate adversity, create value and transform systems.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Beverly Shrand-Stein is an Executive Education Programme Director, Curriculum Designer, Systems Thinking Facilitator, Executive Coach, and Action Learning Group Coach. Beverly teaches Systems Thinking, Design Thinking and Business Ethics.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Grant Sieff is an adjunct associate professor at the UCT GSB, a visiting professor at Rhodes Business School and teaches at business schools in South Africa and Europe. He specialises in strategy development and delivery, change management and in leadership performance and growth in executive programme delivery.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Jonathan Steyn is a business strategist, educator, researcher and wine industry specialist whose work advances collaborative approaches to market creation. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCTGSB), where he convenes executive programmes in wine business management, wine marketing, and hospitality leadership, as well as teaching on visiting masters cohorts.