ALLAN GRAY CENTRE FOR VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP
Challenging organisations and individuals with purpose, and resilience
Faculty
Meet our Faculty
Prof Kurt April
Allan Gray Centre Faculty
Professor Kurt April is the Allan Gray Chair, an Endowed Professorship, and Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership, specialising in Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business (South Africa, 1998-present), Adjunct Faculty at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (UK, 2001-present), and is an Orchestrator and Faculty member of Duke Corporate Education, Duke University (USA, 2008-present).
Dr Preeya Daya
Allan Gray Centre Faculty
Dr Preeya Daya (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer specialising in Leadership, Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour at the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership and is an Academic Director at the Achievement Awards Group.
Dr Babar Dharani
Allan Gray Centre Faculty
Babar Dharani is a Business Finance Professional (BFP) and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ACA).
Assoc Prof Camaren Peter
Allan Gray Centre Faculty
Dr Camaren Peter (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership at the UCT GSB.Associates
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Assoc Prof Dorota Bourne
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Dr Dorota Bourne works as the Associate Professor of Coaching and Change Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading.
Mr Hugh Corder
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Professor Hugh Corder graduated BCom LLB at the University of Cape Town in the 1970s, after which he completed the LLB degree at Cambridge (UK) in 1978/9, and went on to the University of Oxford (UK) on a Rhodes Scholarship to earn his doctorate in 1982.
Dr Dion Forster
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Dr Dion Forster is the Director of the Beyers Naude Centre for Public Theology and the Head of Department, Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University.
Prof Martin Hall
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Martin Hall is Emeritus Professor at the UCT GSB and Digital Advisor for Henley Business School.
Ms Kathy Harvey
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Kathy Harvey is the Associate Dean of the MBA and Executive Degrees at Saïd Business School, is a Fellow of Keble College at the University of Oxford in the UK.
Dr Thabo Makgoba
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Archbishop Dr Thabo Makgoba is the Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, South Africa.
Dr Sharron McPherson
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Sharron McPherson is an adjunct senior lecturer at the UCT GSB where she lectures project finance on the MBA programme.
Ms Namhla Mniki
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Ms Namhla Mniki is a global development strategist leading African Monitor, an entity working to eradicate poverty, to create economic opportunities, and to empower African citizens to drive the achievement of sustainable development in Africa.
Dr Angel Myeza
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Dr Angel Myeza is currently the Vice President: Field Services for Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric.
Prof Eddy Ng
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Professor Ng is the Smith Professor of Equity and Inclusion in Business at Queen’s University, Canada.
Ms Ndidi Nwuneli
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Ndidi Nwuneli serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation (USA), the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), AGRA, and Nigerian Breweries Plc.
Prof Mustafa Özbilgin
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Mustafa Özbilgin is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London UK, is Co-Chaire Management et Diversité at Université Paris Dauphine, France, and is a Visiting Professor of Management at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr Anet Potgieter
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Dr Anet Potgieter is the co-Founder and Technical Director of Cognitive Systems (Pty) Ltd, a South African software engineering company focusing on Cognitive Computing, Distributed Artificial Intelligence in Internet of Things and Big Data Environments.
Mr Ron Schiff
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Ron Schiff is the Founder and CEO of eValue Strategic Organisational Surveys, an online (SaaS) subscription-based feedback scorecard, providing instant feedback and insights on strategic implementation and execution for organisations.
Ms Chwayita Shude-Mareka
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Chwayita Shude-Mareka is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Massmart, before that she worked for Rhodes Food Group (RFG) where she was the Group Human Resources Director since July 2019.
Assoc Prof Joana Vassilopoulou
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Dr Vassilopoulou is an Associate Professor at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London (UK), and a Senior Lecturer at the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organizations, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (The Netherlands).
Dr Badri Zolfaghari
Allan Gray Centre Associate
Dr Badri Zolfaghari lectures in the field of strategy and international business at the UCT GSB and is a researcher in the field of organisational behaviour, with a focus on multi-level trust development across cultures.Admin Team
