Welcome to the
GEPF Thought Leadership Conference 2024

Musa Mabesa

Musa Mabesa (ACCA) is the Principal Executive Officer (PEO) of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF). He is a seasoned finance professional with over 17 years’ experience, 10 of which is in the pension fund industry, specialising in financial management and reporting, governance and corporate services.

Prior to joining the GEPF, Mr Mabesa worked for various private and public sector institutions in various positions. In 2011 he joined the GEPF as a Finance Manager and was subsequently appointed as Head of Corporate Services in 2017. In 2020 Mr Mabesa became the Principal Executive Officer of the GEPF.

Mr Mabesa holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree from University of London and Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting Science (BCompt) from University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a Chartered Certified Accountant through the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and is a member of the Institute of Directors Southern Africa.

Sifiso Sibiya

Sifiso Sibiya is the Head of Investments at the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF).

Mr. Sibiya has 13 years of experience within financial services, specialising in investments, financial risk management and employee benefits. Prior to joining the GEPF; Mr. Sibiya worked at Alexander Forbes as an Investments Actuary and led the Actuarial Investments function. He also worked at Deloitte Financial Services Advisory as an Actuarial Manager.

He holds Honours degree in Mathematical Statistics and a degree in Actuarial Science from the University of the Witwatersrand and he is currently finalising his Master’s degree in Finance and Investments. Mr. Sibiya is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, a Charter Enterprise Risk Actuary and a CAIA Charterholder.

Sebastien Betermier

Sebastien Betermier is the Executive Director of the International Centre for Pension Management, and an Associate Professor of Finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research focuses on risk and return, portfolio management and asset pricing, pension funds and retirement systems, household finance, and sustainable finance. His work appears in top finance journals and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Bloomberg among others.

Professor Betermier teaches Applied Investments and Pension Funds and Retirement Systems at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been recognized repeatedly through nominations for teaching excellence which includes receiving the Desautels Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016 and 2020 and coaching the winning team of the PRMIA international risk management challenge in 2016, 2017, and 2019. He was named one of the World’s Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors by Poets and Quants in 2017.

Professor Betermier holds a PhD in Finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as Faculty Director of the McGill International Portfolio Challenge and is a member of the Research Policy Network on Household Finance at the Center for Economic Policy Research. He was born in France and grew up in Paris and San Francisco.

Brian Karidza

Brian Karidza is the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) Head of benefits and actuarial. Brian is a qualified actuary with over 10 years of experience in pension fund valuations and employee benefits consulting. Brian holds a Bsc (Hons) degree in Actuarial Science from the University of the Wits Watersrand. He is a Fellow of both the Actuarial Society of South Africa and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Brian also holds a Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary qualification. He was awarded a certificate in Data Science by the University of Southampton (in collaboration with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries) as well as a Data Science certificate from the University of Cape Town.

Dondo Mogajane

Dondo Mogajane is the Chairperson of the GEPF & Chief Executive Officer of Moti Group.

Mr. Mogajane joined National Treasury in 1999 as a Deputy Director and has worked in various areas including among others, the Intergovernmental Relations, Provincial Budget Analysis and the International Economic Relations divisions. Between 2007 and 2010, he represented South Africa at the Executive Board of the World Bank as senior advisor for Africa Group 1 countries.

Between 2010 and May 2014, Mr. Mogajane was appointed as the Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Finance and later as the acting Chief Operating Officer from May 2014 until May 2015. He was later appointed Deputy Director-General responsible for the Public Finance division at National Treasury a position he occupied since June 2015.

Following a request by former DG Lungisa Fuzile to shorten his contract to end in May 2017 instead of May 2018, Mr. Mogajane was appointed as Director-General of the National Treasury in June 2017.

Prior to his appointment at the National Treasury, Mr. Mogajane was a Student Housing Manager and part-time lecturer at Durban Westville University. He was also lecturer in Public Management at Technikon SA and ML Sultan Technikon and Deputy Director at Environmental and Development Agency Trust.

Mr. Mogajane has two honours degrees in Public Management and Human Resources and Industrial Relations obtained at the University of Durban Westville. He also completed a Master’s degree in Public Management at the University of Maryland (USA), a Management Advancement Programme at Wits Business School and a Programme in Budgeting and Public Financial Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Dr. Thomas Post

I am Associate Professor of Finance at Maastricht University and Open University, and affiliated with Netspar. My research focuses on behavioral household finance. I am interested in (1) understanding households’ financial decisions (e.g., saving, asset allocation, trading, and annuitization decisions) and (2) designing nudges and interventions to change households’ financial decisions (e.g., pension communication, product design).

With this approach I aim to cover the complete financial decisions-making journey across the life cycle, starting from engagement (collecting information, planning), accumulating savings (how much and where to invest), and finally the decumulation of pension assets.

Laurent Barras

Laurent Barras conducts empirical research on asset management and asset pricing. His research covers a broad range of topics including mutual and hedge fund performance, stock return predictability, and the pricing of uncertainty risk in financial markets. His work has appeared in leading academic journals (Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics), and has been cited in several international newspapers (New York Times, Forbes). Laurent Barras received a PhD degree in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute at the University of Geneva. Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, he was an Associate Professor at McGill University, where he received the Faculty Desmarais award for research excellence and the best teacher award in the Master program.

Mark Colegate

Editorial Director, Asset TV

Mark Has worked as a journalist covering financial services since 1995. He started out on trade publications, winning the Golden Pen Best Newcomer Award in 1996 and Autif Trade Journalist of The Year Award in 1998. He also freelanced for the national press, writing a regular column in the Mail on Sunday’s personal finance section. He subsequently edited numerous titles, covering investment funds, structured products, tax, pensions in both the UK and Europe. In 2008 he joined Asset.tv, developing programme formats and interviewing many of the country’s leading fund managers, fund selectors and asset owners. His professional qualifications include the UK Financial Planning Certificate and the Investment Management Certificate

Britt Hoffmann Jones

Head of DC and Retirement Solutions
Britt is Head of DC and Retirement Solutions within Schroders Solutions. She has a multi-faceted background spanning defined benefit and defined contribution (DC) pensions, investment strategy, and proposition development. Britt was Head of UK DC Pensions at River and Mercantile (R&M) from 2011. After a planned career break in 2015 to have her daughter, Britt returned to the industry as Head of Proposition Development at PTL, where she worked closely with the board to further develop the firm’s diversification strategy in light of market trends – in particular consolidation. Britt returned to R&M in early 2021 to head corporate strategy for the DC business, and to lead proposition development, with a focus on the consolidation and Master Trust market. R&M was subsequently acquired by Schroders in February 2022 and Britt continued her focus on DC pensions, but with a global scope, and a more acute focus on the market trends of consolidation and DC/ wealth integration. She has a particular passion for innovation and technology driven solutions.

Anne Simpson

Global Head of Sustainability Franklin Templeton Companies LLC California, United States
Anne Simpson is Global Head of Sustainability for Franklin Templeton, reporting to the President and CEO. In this newly created role, Ms. Simpson is responsible for driving the company’s strategic direction on stewardship, sustainability and ESG investment strategy globally, while fostering best practices within the firm’s autonomous specialist investment managers. She serves as the firm’s primary spokesperson on matters related to sustainability and participates in industry engagement initiatives and advocacy activities with policy makers and regulators.
Ms. Simpson joined the firm in 2022, bringing over 35 years of sustainable investment and academic expertise as well as extensive experience in the international regulatory and policy arena. She is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University appointed by the Chancellor and teaches at University of California, Berkeley Haas Business School as a Lecturer in Sustainable and Impact Finance. In addition, Ms. Simpson is an advisory council member for the Official Monetary Financial Institutions Forum, a board member at Ceres, serves on the Leadership Council for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and on the steering committee of Climate Action 100+. She has previously served on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Investor Advisory Group and the International Financial Reporting Standards Advisory Council.
Prior to joining FT, Ms. Simpson was with the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest asset owners in the world, where she served as Managing Investment Director for Board Governance & Sustainability, leading the development and execution of CalPERS’ award-winning Sustainable Investment Strategy across a global portfolio of US$500 bn with 80% assets internally managed. At CalPERS, Ms. Simpson served as a member of its Investment Management Committee, which determines asset liability management, capital allocation, risk management and operations across global public equity, fixed income, private equity, private credit, real assets and infrastructure. In addition, she served as the inaugural Chair of Climate Action 100+ and its Asia Advisory Group, a global investor alliance of US$60 trillion which CalPERS convened and co-founded. Ms. Simpson also led the CalPERS investment office diversity, equity and inclusion business initiative, including the founding of 3D (Diverse Director DataSource). Prior to joining CalPERS, she was a Sr Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Management, Head of the Global Corporate Governance Forum at the World Bank, Executive Director of the International Corporate Governance Network and Joint Managing Director of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (PIRC) Ltd.
In 2019, Time Magazine named Ms. Simpson as one of the 15 women leading the global fight on climate change. In 2020, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance by Barron’s. For 12 consecutive years from 2010-22, she has been ranked by the National Association of Corporate Directors as one of the year’s 100 most influential people in the boardroom. Simpson has published several books in the field, including, most recently, “The Financial Ecosystem: The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability” with Satyajit Bose and Dong Guo of Columbia University (Palgrave MacMillan), and “Fair Shares: The Future of Shareholder Power and Responsibility” with Jonathan Charkham (Oxford University Press).
She graduated from Oxford University in the United Kingdom, where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees and was a Slater Fellow at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

Dipak Patel

Dipak joined the South African Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) in June 2021 as Head: Climate Finance and Innovation. He leads the team in its work in the areas of climate finance mapping, financing a just transition and developing a strategy for financing the pathway to a net-zero emissions target for 2050.
The PCC was established, and is chaired by, the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa. It is mandated to advise on all aspects of South Africa’s climate change response.
Dipak is a non-executive director on the Board of Transnet.
Prior to joining the PCC, Dipak was Special Advisor to the Minister of Public Enterprises, from 2018 to 2020. In this capacity he was an integral part of the Minister’s Office, developing strategic and financial programmes for state owned enterprises. He was also integral to the process of determining a state- wide framework for the financial and governance management of all state- owned enterprises.
Dipak is a chemical engineer, and a qualified artisanal brewer, with a MSc in Development Economics (University of London) and an MBA (University of the Witwatersrand)
He worked in various technical, production management and capital development roles at South African Breweries from 1985 to 1993.
Soon after South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy in 1994, Dipak chaired the National Taxi Task Team, a Ministerial task team, and was appointed was as Director-General of the National Department of Transport in 1998.
Dipak worked at Standard Bank (2002 – 2012), in various capacities in investment banking, becoming global head of Structured and Project Finance, as well as Global Head of transactional products. He served on the group credit and investment committees.
Between 2012 and 2018, Dipak operated his own financial and investment management and trading enterprise, based in New York.

Gautam Bhardwaj

Gautam Bhardwaj is a co-founder of pinBox Solutions, a Singapore and India based global social pensionTech and expert advisory firm committed to digital micro-pension inclusion in Africa and Asia.
Between 1998 and 2010, he led an expert team that helped the Indian Government design and roll out the National Pension System (NPS) that today has roughly 40 million subscribers and an AUM of over US$125 billion. In 2017 and 2018, he led a multi-disciplinary pinBox team that helped the Government of Rwanda to design, build and implement Ejo Heza LTSS — Africa’s first government sponsored digital micro-pension system — that today has around 3 million voluntary subscribers (half of whom are women).
In 2006, Gautam established a micro-pension social enterprise in India that helped over 2.5 million self-employed women to start saving for their old age. He has led several World Bank, ADB, UNCDF and FSD/UKAID funded feasibility studies on digital micro-pension inclusion in Asia and Africa. He has also served on several government and regulatory committees on pension, tax and financial sector reforms.

Janina Slawski

Head: Investments Consulting
Qualifications: MBusSci (Actuarial Science), FFA, FASSA, CFA, FRM, CERA, CAIA
Janina has an MBusSc degree from the University of Cape Town and has actuarial (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries and Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa), investments (Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) and risk (Financial Risk Manager and Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary) qualifications.
She has worked in the fields of life insurance and risk benefits, employee benefits, asset consulting, short term insurance and risk management, and investments, including distribution, marketing and advisory activities.
She was President of the Actuarial Society of South Africa from 2003 to 2005, and Overseas Vice-President of the Faculty of Actuaries from 2006 to 2009. Her current responsibilities include providing investment advice to a portfolio of large clients, and heading the client-facing teams across Alexander Forbes multi-management solutions and investments advisory.

Michael Jordaan

The former FNB CEO now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital, investing in disruptive businessmodelsenabled by technology. Michael invests in and lends a strategic hand to various businesses such as the 5G data network rain, chairs mobile challenger Bank Zero and is chairman of the SA SME Fund Investment Committee, the largest Venture Capital Fund in South Africa. He is also co-founder of AI Capital, a private equity partnership that invests in high-performing entrepreneurial teams across the globe.

Muitheri Wahome

Muitheri Wahome is the founder of the Asset Management Research Institute. She is the author of Building Capital – a history of asset management in South Africa. Wahome is a financial services professional with 27 years of experience and has a deep interest in financial inclusion and the history and lore of the asset management industry in South Africa in the global context. After starting out in 1997 as an insurance sector analyst at Barnard Jacobs Mellet, Wahome joined Alexander Forbes Asset Consultants in 2001, where she held several consulting and investment positions over a 17-year career including head of manager research, head of performance surveys, until she was appointed head of the division in 2008. Wahome later joined Alexander Forbes Investments (previously Investment Solutions) as head of technical solutions, going on to serve as chief client officer of the firm. Early in her career, she developed and launched the first institutional specialist equity survey in South Africa.Wahome has been recognised as a top investment consultant and investment analyst by the Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals, in the Financial Mail, and Reuters. She has been a member of the Financial Services Board Collective Investment Schemes Control Act (CISCA) advisory board and an independent expert witness to the PIC Commission of Inquiry. She holds a BCom (Hons) from the University of Nairobi and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and an investment committee member for the University of the Free State, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and the Mandela Rhodes Foundation. She also has experience sitting on pension fund trustee boards and as an independent non-executive director on financial services company boards. Wahome loves art and has served as a docent at the Wits Art Museum.

Natalie Kolbe

Natalie Kolbe is the Managing Partner of Norrsken22, responsible for the overall management of the Fund, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Natalie brings a wealth of growth investing experience to Norrsken22, having spent 19 years at Actis – one of the leading private equity firms focused on the Emerging Markets. At Actis, Natalie was Global Head of Private Equity responsible for c. USD $5 billion of AUM across 8 funds.

Paul Brendan Hanratty

Over 30 years’ experience in insurance, asset management, wealth management and banking in Africa, Europe, the UK, the USA and India. Served as Chairman and CEO of a number of UK, European and South African financial services businesses, as well as a non-executive director of a number of financial services businesses and a major listed telecoms company. On 1 July 2020 he was appointed as CEO of Sanlam Limited. An actuary by profession, his interests include golf, cycling and travel. He is married and has 3 children.

Prabashini Moodley

Managing Director: Old Mutual Corporate
Prabashini is an experienced financial services executive and qualified actuary. She has over 20 years of experience across Old Mutual Limited spanning various markets and functions. Prabashini has been Managing Director of Old Mutual Corporate since November 2019.
Prior to this she was Chief Financial Officer of the Old Mutual Mass and Foundation Cluster. In recent years’ she has developed her leadership capabilities through leading teams and change initiatives as well as mentorship of young professionals.
She is the Group Executive Committee sponsor of the actuarial professionals within Old Mutual and is also a non-executive director across a number of boards.
When not working she enjoys spending quality time with family and close friends, and travelling to new places and learning about different cultures, which she has fortunately been able to re-start this year.

Prof Alex van den Heever

Prof Alex van den Heever (MA economics from the University of Cape Town) holds the Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at the Wits School of Governance. He has worked in the areas of health economics, public finance, governance and social security since 1989. His work largely focuses on strategic policy research for social security and health systems.
Professionally He has worked for the Department of Finance (which now forms part of National Treasury), the Industrial Development Corporation, the Centre for Health Policy (WITS), the Gauteng Department of Health, Deloitte & Touche and the Council for Medical Schemes. He has also formed part of various inquiries in the fields of health and social security including the Malamet Commission on Medical Schemes, the Taylor Committee of Inquiry into Comprehensive Social Security, the Ministerial Task team on Social Health Insurance, the Health Market Inquiry. He has also chaired two expert panel investigations into a basic income support grant for South Africa supported by the International Labour Office.
He has also served on various official bodies, including the Council for Medica Schemes and the Medicines Pricing Committee.

Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker is a consulting actuary with a passion for pensions, he heads the Old Mutual Corporate Consultants actuarial team. Stephen is the current chairperson of the Actuarial Society’s pensions practice committee and is also a member of the Actuarial Society’s social security and retirement reform working group. He consults to retirement funds in a number of sub-Saharan African countries.

Tshepiso Kobile

Tshepiso hails from a financial services background, having served as an investment professional with the Development Bank of Southern Africa and as a property finance manager with Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking.

Through her involvement in both the public and private sectors, she has gained unique skills in senior management roles, representing various players along the property value chain and structuring partnership agreements for funding of large property development and bulk infrastructure. Prior to joining SAVCA, she served as a Senior Programme Manager for Catalytic Projects in the eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu Natal, Chairperson of SAIBPP KZN (as well as Board Member), a member of SAPOA Regional Council, and a representative for Business in the KZN Economic Council’s Infrastructure Task Team.

She has served on the National Housing Finance Corporation’s Board, Credit and Investment Committee, as well as Social and Ethics Committees.

She holds a BSc (Honours) Degree in Property Studies from the University of Cape Town and a Diploma in Company Direction (IoD UK) – the second steps towards achieving Chartered Director status.

Thiru Pather

Principal
The SA SME Fund

Thiru is a Principal at the SA SME Fund, a fund set up with the broad objective of creating and developing entrepreneurs. She is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has over 18 years of Venture Capital, Private Equity and Corporate Finance experience. Prior to joining the SA SME Fund, Thiru was a Fund Principal at the Public Investment Corporation where she was Head of the Fund of Funds division. In addition to her executive role at the SA SME Fund, Thiru is the Chairperson of the SAVCA VC Sub-Committee and is an independent IC member of the 27four Black Business Growth Fund II.

Kenny Fihla

Kenny Fihla

Kenny is the Chief Executive (CE) of Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank. In this role, Kenny is responsible for the largest Corporate and Investment bank in Sub-Saharan Africa with an annual turn-over of over R60 billion in 2023 and a footprint that covers 20 African countries and representation in four financial centres of London, New York, Dubai, and Beijing.

Kenny is a respected leader with extensive leadership and investment banking experience. In his 18-year tenure within Standard Bank he has led different businesses and distinguished himself in his ability to turn around struggling businesses and inspire teams. Kenny has a diverse professional history, having started his career in the trade union movement in the 1980’s. He regards the most challenging and growth period of his career as his involvement in the turn-around of the finances of the City of Johannesburg in the late 90’s.

Kenny holds an MSC in Financial Economics from the University of London and an MBA from the University of Witwatersrand.

Jason Suares

Jason Suares, Director, is a member of the Aladdin Business Development team within the Aladdin Client Business, based in Dubai. Mr. Suares engages with prospective clients to assess their needs and determine appropriate risk reporting, analytics and investment platform solutions via the Aladdin & eFront platform.Prior to this role Mr. Suares worked within the Portfolio Analytics Group (PAG) within BlackRock Solutions and was responsible for the delivery of fundamental and index equity analytic solutions to BlackRock’s investment teams. Prior to this, Mr Suares supported the BlackRock Multi-Asset Client Solutions business.

Mr Suares earned a BSc degree in Economics & Management from the University of Southampton in 2010.

Tryphosa Ramano

Tryphosa Ramano is a qualified and registered Chartered Accountant (CA) with extensive experience in the financial services and various other key economic sectors. Tryphosa boasts a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town. She has made and continues to make a significant contribution in the public sector, banking and financial services, mining, manufacturing and aviation industries through the various leadership and management roles.

Tryphosa is a gender activist with a passion for uplifting women and youth. Currently Tryphosa Ramano is self-employed as a consultant and serves as board member for the Solidarity Fund, Eskom HOLDINGS, Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and South African Reserve Bank amongst others. During her tenure at PPC as CFO (2011-2019), Tryphosa played a critical role in the company’s expansion into the African Continent, specifically in Zimbabwe, Botswana, DR Congo, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. As an executive responsible for overall oversight and monitoring of the company’s financial performance and balance sheet, Tryphosa ensured that these investments did not have adverse impact on the financial performance and sustainability of the PPC Group. This was achieved through such measures as market capitalisation of the business.

Prior to joining PPC, Tryphosa occupied senior executive positions and directorships in key strategic companies and South African government in National Treasury. Her previous executive positions are as follows; CFO for WIPHOLD and CFO for SAA. Her previous directorships are as follows; ACSA, Adcorp, Sasria, SAA, Landbank, DBSA, Board of Auditors at African Union, PPC Ltd, USB-ED, SA Express Ltd, PPC subsidiaries outside of South Africa, chairperson of Black Business Council as well as former President of Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP), African Women Chartered Accountants (AWCA) and Young Leaders Connect (YLC).

Benjamin Versluijs

Senior Vice President – Northern Trust

Benjamin started his career with Northern Trust in 2018. In the period since, he has contributed to some of the larger strategic projects in the EMEA region. In this role, he supports institutional parties, with an explicit focus towards pensions and their transitioning market requirements.

Benjamin has been active in the financial industry since 2003, enjoying the entire span in the Asset Servicing segment. Before he joined Northern Trust, he held various commercial and relationship functions at financial institutions and the local depositories of Euroclear in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, as well as their headquarter Euroclear Bank in Brussels.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

As a dedicated partner to the society, Benjamin is active in various philantopic taskforces. In addition, he maintains a voluntary seat as a Board Member of non profit organisation associated to the Rotterdam Zoo.

Isaah Mhlanga

Isaah Mhlanga is the Chief Economist and Head of Global Markets Research and member of Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) Global Markets Exco. He leads a team of economists, analysts and strategists covering macroeconomics, fixed income, currencies, commodities and credit across South Africa and several key African countries to serve the bank and its institutional and corporate clients. He drives research client strategy in collaboration with sales, trading and the broader teams within RMB.

Prior to this, Isaah was the Executive Chief Economist at Alexforbes, a member of Alexforbes Investments Exco, the Asset Allocation and Investment Committees. He has prior experience as a macroeconomist at Absa Capital, senior economist at the National Treasury, having started his career as an economist at the International Monetary Fund local office in Pretoria.

His passion for education has seen him lecture undergraduate mathematical and financial economics at the University of Johannesburg in the past, and currently serve as a Trustee of Study Trust and non-executive board member of Kutlwanong Centre for Maths, Science and Technology, both of which are entities that contribute in the development of critical skills among previously disadvantaged communities. He is a Fellow of the GIBS Center for Africa Management and Markets and Economic Research of Southern Africa, as well as a regular columnist for major local business publications.

Musa Malwandla

Musa Malwandla is a finance professional with 12 years of experience, holding a PhD in Finance and an MSc in Statistics. He is a top-rated analyst in the insurance sector, skilled in data science, credit risk modelling, actuarial analysis, and financial modelling. He has extensive experience in model development, data science, and leading teams in the delivery of complex analytics projects in finance and banking.

Musa serves as Co-CIO at a Differential Capital, where he is responsible for artificial intelligence and data science in the investment process.