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Prof Haroon Bhorat
 Prof
Haroon Bhorat is at the School of Economics. He is also the Director of the
Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) and more recently, the Deputy Dean for
Research in the Faculty of Commerce. His research interests cover the areas of
labour economics, poverty and income distribution.
He has co-authored two books on labour markets and poverty issues in South
Africa, and has published widely in academic journals. He has done extensive
work for numerous South African government departments, most notably the South
African Department of Labour, the Presidency and the National Treasury. He has
served on a number of government research advisory panels and consults regularly
with international organisations. Haroon Bhorat is a board member of the Centre
for Policy Studies (CPS) and the Ministers appointee on the Employment
Conditions Commission (ECC). He is a member of the Editorial Boards for the
South African Journal of Economics, New Agenda and the populist journal
Frontiers.
Most recently he has been appointed as a member of the technical working group (TWG)
of the JIPSA an initiative of the Deputy President of South Africa. JIPSA (the
Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition) is a working project in support
of ASGISA-SA (Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa). Dr
Bhorat also serves as an economic advisor to President Thabo Mbeki, formally
serving on the Presidential Economic Advisory Panel.
He has his PhD in Economics through Stellenbosch University.
A/Prof Irwin Brown
 Irwin Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems.
He graduated with a BSc Eng Hons (Elect) degree from the University of Zimbabwe
in 1988, a Master of Information Systems (IS) degree from Curtin University of
Technology, Australia in 1995 and a PhD from UCT in 2005. The topic of his PhD
thesis was strategic information systems planning. Irwin's current research
interests relate to the use of interpretive and qualitative research
methodologies in investigating IS phenomenon such as the
appropriation / adaptation / adoption / diffusion of information technologies at an
individual, organisational, societal or national level. He has authored and
co-authored articles in several international journals, including the Journal of
Global Information Management, the International Journal of Information
Management, Educational Technology and Society Journal, Information Resources
Management Journal and the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in
Developing Countries. He has also published in local journals such as the South
African Computer Journal and Alternation Journal, as well as in local and
international peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Irwin received a NRF rating
(Established researcher) in 2006.
For more information, go to:
http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/staff/personalpages/ibrown/
Lawrence Edwards
 Lawrence
Edwards is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape
Town. Lawrence graduated with a MSc in Economics from the London School of
Economics in 1998. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Cape
Town in 2003.
Lawrence's research falls within the field of international trade with a
specific focus on international trade and labour, the determinants of trade
flows and economic adjustments to trade liberalisation. He has published in a
number of international and local journals including World Development, Journal
of International Development, South African Journal of Economics and Journal of
Studies in Economics and Econometrics. He has also consulted widely with the
World Bank, the National Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry and is
currently a member of the South African Growth Project managed by the Centre of
International Development at Harvard University.
Johannes Fedderke
 Johannes
Fedderke is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He is
currently the Director of Economic Research Southern Africa and of the School of
Economics at the University of Cape Town. His research interests center on the
determinants of economic growth, with special interest in the role of
institutions in long run economic development. His published work includes
empirical and theoretical contributions, and has provided cross-country, panel
and country specific time series evidence on the interaction of growth and
institutions. Recent extensions of his work have examined the effectiveness of
performance intensity of aid in dynamic theoretical models, and the impact of
governance on growth employing dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation
techniques.
Colin Firer
Academic Director of GSB and Len Abrahamse Chair of Business Administration in
Finance
BSc(Hons) MBA(cum laude) Wits PhD UCT
Areas of expertise: Investment return and risk; Financial theory; Personal
financial planning; History of South Africa's capital markets in the 20th
century
Colin Firer is the Academic Director of the Graduate School of Business at the
University of Cape Town and the Len Abrahamse Professor of Business
Administration in the field of Finance.
He is a former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Management at the University of the
Witwatersrand and former Professor of Business Administration in the field of
Financial Management at the Wits Business School. He has 11 years of experience
in the manufacturing and retail industries.
Colin has published 54 papers in the areas of capital budgeting, information
disclosure in annual reports, share splits, market timing, risk analysis in
capital budgeting, the risk perceptions of investors, applying financial theory
in the South African environment and economic value added.
His current research interests include the use of financial planning models in
the teaching of finance, the history of risk and return in the South African
capital markets, the cost of capital, and dividend policy.
He is co-author (with Ross, Westerfield and Jordan) of Fundamentals of
Corporate Finance: 3rd South African Edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin Publishers,
2004 and (with Hartley and Ford) of An Introduction to Business Accounting and
Finance: 5th South African Edition, Wits University Press, 2006.
Email: cfirer@gsb.uct.ac.za
Tel: 021-406-1078
Prof Frank M. Horwitz
BA (SocSci), HDPM, MPM, PhD (1985) (Witwatersrand)
Director of the Graduate School of Business (GSB) University of Cape Town from 1
April 2004, and Professor in Business Administration, He specialises in human
resources management, organisation change and industrial relations. Professor
Horwitz has been Visiting Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University in the Netherlands, Nanyang Business School in Singapore,
Faculty of Management, at the University of Calgary, Canada, and research
associate of the Industrial Relations Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane
Australia. He is a former Faculty member of Wits Business School, University of
the Witwatersrand. He has some ten years executive experience in these fields
with AECI, and ICI in England.
He has co-authored four books including Employment Equity and Affirmative
Action: an International Comparison published by ME. Sharpe, New York in 2003;
Managing Human Resources in Africa, Routledge: United Kingdom in 2004; Managing
Resourceful People, a book on Human Resource Policy and Strategy, and
co-authored On the Edge: How South African Companies Cope with Change, which
deals with critical factors in effective change strategies. He has over 90
refereed articles, books and book chapters, locally and internationally, in
journals such as Business in the Contemporary World, Human Resource Management
Journal, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management (IJCCM), Journal of
International Compensation and Benefits, International Journal of Human Resource
Management (IJHRM), International Journal of Manpower, Industrial Relations
Journal (IRJ), Journal of European Industrial Training JEIT), Personnel Review,
Public Administration and Development and the Work Flexibility Review.
He is on the editorial boards of the IJHRM, IJCCM, JEIT, and other leading
international and local journals. Professor Horwitz is a National Research
Foundation (NRF) rated researcher.
He has presented invited papers at conferences in Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mauritius, Singapore, USA, United Kingdom
and Zimbabwe, and has lectured at universities in Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore
and the United States. He has been Acting Director of the UCT Graduate School of
Business on several occasions, Academic director and MBA Course Director for
three years and Director of Research for seven years. He was awarded the
Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town Lecturer of the Year Award
for teaching excellence on Executive Programmes in 1995. His article: The
emergence of Strategic Training and Development: the current state of play,
published in the Journal of European Industrial Training, was rated the third
most frequently used, in some 40 international Business and Management journals
published by MCB University Press in the United Kingdom. He received the Alpha
award for the best article in the journal People Dynamics. His research
interests include human capital strategies, workplace flexibility and high
performance work practices, leading and managing knowledge workers,
organisational redesign, performance incentives, mergers and acquisitions, cross
cultural and international HRM, employment discrimination and diversity.
He is a board member of companies, has acted as a consultant in organisational
change and human capital strategies for companies in Canada, Namibia and South
Africa, and to the governments of Namibia, Singapore and South Africa. Frank was
in 2000, Chair of the Commission investigating the effects of sub-contracting on
the collective bargaining system in the building industry. He was on the
national Council of the Industrial Relations Association (IRASA), was a
(part-time) commissioner on the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and
Arbitration (CCMA), and on Clothing Industry Bargaining Council Dispute
Resolution Panel. He is active in community service organisations. Among these,
he has served on the executive committee of the SA Institute of Race Relations.
He is a past executive committee member and national treasurer of the SA
Association for Conflict Intervention (SAACI). He is a regular contributor on
radio including Cape Talk radio, SAFM, has written for business newspapers such
as Business Day and the Financial Times and has appeared on television.
Frank Horwitz was educated at Grey College and the University of the
Witwatersrand. He is married with three children, is a keen cyclist, enjoys good
wine and plays a mean guitar.
David Kaplan
Allan Gray Professor of Business-Government Relations Professor, Department of
Economics, UCT.
DEGREES: B.A. B. Comm. (UCT) MA (Kent) DPhil(Sussex)
CONTACT: dakaplan@gsb.uct.ac.za
Located in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)
David Kaplan has extensive experience in working with an in government. He has
been engaged in a wide variety of work for a number of government departments
particularly the Departments of Science and Technology (DST) and Trade and
Industry (dti). He was Chief Economist at the dti, 2000-2003 and is currently
Chief Economist (part-time) in the Department of Economic Development and
Tourism in the Western Cape. He has served for four years as a member of the
National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI). With support from the IRD in
France, he established the South African Network of Skills Abroad (SANSA) a
network to engage in South Africans located abroad in utilising their skills to
support development in South Africa.
At UCT, David Kaplan founded the Science and Technology Research Center (STPRC)
in 1994 with the support of the IDRC (Canada). Together with two colleagues, he
established the Development Policy Research Unit in 1995. He was Director of the
STPRC and the DPRU for much of the period 1995-2000, before joining the dti.
David Kaplan is concerned with policy-oriented research, particularly in the
fields of industrial and technology policy. The critical concern is how
government and business collectively develop policies and strategies that can
best enhance development. There is a strong interest in Science and Technology
and especially how government policy can serve to enhance innovation on the part
of businesses. Research on innovation within South African companies and how
this is affected by the policy environment is a central thrust of his research
and teaching at the GSB.
Thomas Koelble
Professor of Business Administration
BA (Wellington, N.Z), MA (Essex, UK), PhD (UCSD, US)
Areas of expertise: Globalisation; European politics; Business, governance and
society; Electoral laws; South African democracy. Contact:
tkoelble@gsb.uct.ac.za, (021) 406
1999
With a PhD in political science Thomas Koelble brings a distinctive dimension to
the GSB. Koelble taught political economy at the University of California,
Oberlin College in Ohio, and at the University of Miami before returning to
South Africa in the late 1990's. He joined the GSB as Director of the MBA
programme in 2000. He held that position until 2003 and has since then been a
faculty member. Koelble convenes the Business, Government and Society course
which is designed to assist students in understanding the broader context within
which businesses in emerging markets operate. He has published widely on issues
pertaining to the global economy and local democracy, economic decision-making,
social democracy, electoral and political systems and organizations, identity
politics and democratic theory. He is currently working on several international
research projects - funded by the South African National Research Foundation -
that deal with issues pertaining to the global financial markets and domestic
economic policy, local governance and service delivery, traditional leadership
and public administration, and finally the impact of trans-national eco-tourism
on local communities in Southern Africa.
Murray Leibbrandt
 Murray
Leibbrandt is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape
Town and the Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research
Unit. His research focuses on South African povety, inequality and labour
markets. Currently, he is a principal investigator of the Cape Area Panel Study
and the National Income Dynamics Study and has just finished serving a two year
term as the President of the African Econometric Society. He has done extensive
policy research for the Presidency and the Treasury and in 1994/5 he was a
member of South Africas Presidential Labour Market Commission. He has published
in a number of academic journals including Economic Modelling, the Journal of
African Economies, and the Journal of International Development and Contemporary
Economic Policy. In 2003 the University of Cape Town awarded him a meritorious
publication award for a book which he co-edited on poverty and the Alan Pifer
Award for outstanding welfare-related research.
Don Ross
 Don Ross received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1990.
He joined UCT's School of Economics in 1997. In 2003 he accepted a second
appointment as Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Department
of Finance, Economics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham. He therefore divides his year between Cape Town and Alabama. His
research specializations are applications of game theory to social behavior and to inter-neural (brain) competition. He also publishes on general
issues in the foundations of economic theory and in the philosophy of science.
As a consultant he advises industry and government on public infrastructure
investment and on international trade strategy. Among several books and many
articles, he is the author of ECONOMIC THEORY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE VOLUME ONE: MICROEXPLANATION (MIT Press, 2005), EVERYTHING MUST GO: METAPHYSICS NATURALIZED
(with J. Ladyman; Oxford University Press, 2007) and MIDBRAIN MUTINY: THE
PICOECONOMICS AND NEUROECONOMICS OF DISORDERED GAMBLING (with C. Sharp,
R.Vuchinich and D. Spurrett). With H. Kincaid, he is co-editor of the
forthcoming OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE. He is a Canadian
citizen and a permanent resident of South Africa.
Ingrid Woolard
 Ingrid Woolard is a researcher at the Southern Africa Labour and Development
Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town. Ingrid is currently the
co-director (with Murray Leibbrandt) of the National Income Dynamics Study,
South Africas first nationally representative household panel survey. She has
extensive experience in social science research, especially in the area of the
micro-econometric analysis of household surveys. She has published widely in the
fields of labour market analysis, social assistance, income inequality and the
measurement of poverty. She is a co-author of the book "Fighting Poverty: Labour
Markets and Inequality in South Africa".
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