Marianne Camerer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance where she focuses on ethics, public leadership and governance. 

From April 2014 to October 2019 she directed the Building Bridges leadership development platform at the Mandela School, initiating the Emerging African Leaders and Women, Influence, Power programmes. Prior to joining UCT, Marianne co-founded the international anti-corruption NGO Global Integrity in Washington DC and headed anti-corruption research at the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa. 

She holds masters’ degrees in public policy and political philosophy from Oxford and the University of Stellenbosch and a Ph.D. in Political Studies from the University of Witwatersrand, on “Corruption and Reform in Democratic South Africa”. 

Marianne is a Yale World Fellow (2005) and spent a semester in New Haven as a Fellow of the Yale Council on African Studies. She is also a qualified integral coach through UCT’s Centre for Coaching, Graduate School of Business.