She did her primary research for her PhD on the social and economic aspects of decision making amongst small farmers in Zambia, worked as a rural development and local resource management consultant in Zimbabwe before returning to South Africa in 1991.

She worked first as the head of the Land Use Unit and then as Director of the Environmental Development Agency (EDA), one of the oldest rural and local economic development NGO’s in South Africa.
A month after the democratic elections she was asked to head the facilitation and development management of the RDP Fund in the Presidents office. She joined the public service in the Presidents Office as Chief Director: RDP Office later in 1994. Two and a half years later after the RDP Office closed she did a brief stint in the Department of Housing developing the Rural Housing policy before moving to the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEA&T) in 1997.

The University of Pretoria and the Development Resources Centre form the regional leadership hub of the Leadership Regional Network (LeaRN). This spans six countries, and has five program areas involving all three social sectors. LeaRN is a leadership initiative that deals with issues relating to rural communities with special emphasis on women and children.

Mr. Andersson is currently actively involved in the following:
· Member of Council, Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability (international professional body, registered in the United Kingdom)
· Chairperson, Initiative for Participatory Development
· Founding Board Member, Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability – South Africa Chapter
· Democracy and Governance Working Group, USAID Regional Centre for Southern Africa
· National Council Member, SA National NGO Coalition
· Board of Governance, ILRIG South Africa
· Board of Trustees, SANGONET, South Africa
· Board Member, CORDE, Botswana.

Mr. Andersson is married to Shurnell with two daughters and a son. His personal interests are reading, guitar, dance, horticulture and woodwork.

She has one child, a son and is currently fulfilling the role of guardian to 7 year old Khuliso.

Mark was born and educated in England, studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University. He has been resident in Johannesburg for the past thirteen years having spent the first five years of his career in London working for Consolidated Gold Fields. He is married to Yolanda who is CEO of a communication consultancy, which she founded, and they have a daughter, Francesca (23 months) and son Christopher (7 months). He is keenly interested in conservation issues, is a trustee of the Endangered Wildlife Trust and a member of the Executive committee (and principal sponsor of) the environmental network, a body that facilitates dialogue between business, NGO's media and government on environmental issues through a networking lunch programme. His global responsibilities in Barloworld mean he travels extensively.

This analysis involved extensive use of the CAMEL model for determining credit limits and working with senior credit officers of the bank in monitoring exposures and approving exceptions. He also gained extensive experience in risk
management philosophies and practices of Citibank and its application to the South African market. Rakesh is currently the lead partner on the audit of the Treasury Division of ABSA and Transnet Treasury as well as the joint auditor on the Development Bank of Southern Africa.

Vuyo served on various boards, which include the Nelson Mandela Museum, South African Sugar Association (SASA) Umnotho Finance and FSA (South African Reserve Bank Village Banks Regulator). She is the founder and Chairperson of Fukama Savings and Investment Initiatives for stokvels (informal savings). Vuyo is married with two children.

She joined Investment South Africa in June 1997 as the Assistant Manager in External Promotions. She was promoted to the position of Manager International Promotion: Scandinavia and Benelux and in September 1998 she was promoted to the position of Regional Manager: Americas Division responsible for the management of the division, strategic planning and investment promotion and marketing in the Americas Region.

Previously, Ms. Molefe was employed at the Northern Province Rural Development Forum from January 1996 to May 1997, a non-profit organization supporting rural development and economic development.

From September 1994 to September 1995, she was employed by the National Institute for Economic Policy as a Financial Sector Researcher. In this organisation she researched South African and international monetary issue. She was responsible along with an Australian based economist for the maintenance of a 100-equation model on the macro economy of South Africa. She wrote a position paper on the maize industry as the price increases resulting from the restructuring of the maize board and its subsequent liberalisation were expected to impact directly on food inflation and the levels of poverty suffered by the poor as this is a staple food. She was also involved in Public Sector reform and infrastructure development and rehabilitation. During the course of 1995 she was part of a project team, which comprised international researcher, which undertook a baseline study on the situation of women and children in South Africa under the Auspices on UNICEF and the national RDP office. This study is now available from the UNICEF office in South Africa and globally.

Following on a three-month work placement at Bank of England and a one-month study visit at J.P Morgan, she was employed at the Standard Bank of South Africa from May 1994 to September 1994 as assistant Financial Economist.

Whilst at the Bank of England, in London from February to April 1994, she studied cross-border investment by British, American and Japanese Institutional Investors as part of a broader study on the impact of cross-border investments on a country’s financial stability and monetary policy. This was the precursor t the debate on globalisation and its impact on global financial stability.

From January 1993 to December 1993, she was employed as a full-time tutor in the department of Economics at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Her duties included lecturing the first year course on South African Economics Issue. She also tutored third year Economics students and co-ordinate departmental seminars as well as assistant co-coordinator of the first year Economics course. As part of her duties, she had to arrange the annual Department of Economics Standard Bank Economic Prize giving ceremony, which included arranging a debate on the Economic Policy positions of the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party.

She has attended several training courses amongst which was the Central Banking course offered by the Bank of England and the African National Congress in Rustenburg in March 1993, the Corporate Location Course on Investment Promotion as well as similar courses offered by the Malaysian Industrial Development Agency and the Economic Development Board of Singapore and more recently, an advanced course offered to senior executives in Investment Promotion Agencies at the International Development Ireland.

She has completed MBA at the University of Witwatersrand. Ms Molefe is a wife and the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.

Mr. Mooki has a long-standing interest in how technology can be used as a developmental tool, and also teaches a masters level course on “Law & Biotechnology” at the University of the Witwatersrand. Mr. Mooki also participates in various community projects, including working as a volunteer for Inroads South Africa, an organisation that provides internship experiences in the corporate sector for young South Africans.

Mr. Mooki sits on various selection committees, including the Rhodes scholarship and the Clinton Democracy Fellowship. In respect of the Rhodes scholarship, Mr. Mooki is the Secretary for the Botswana, Malawi, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland selection committee.

Mr. Mooki studied at Stanford University, where he took a degree in Immunology & Microbiology. He then went up to Oxford (Queen’s College) on the Rhodes scholarship, where he read Physiology. Mr. Mooki obtained his law degree at the University of Cape Town.

Davis holds a BA degree in Mass Communications from the University of Zambia. He is currently pursuing an MBA by correspondence.

He is currently, together with a small team of empathetic visionaries who share his madness, busy with an idea that has the capacity to transform the planet.

Christopher is father to four and grandfather to another four children and lives in Johannesburg with his wife Melony.

He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and the Institute of Social Studies in Hague in the Netherlands, as well as various executive development programmes at the University of Cape Town, Graduate Business School, Wits Business School, and the Harvard Business School. He worked in the Graduate School of Public and Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand as a researcher and consultant on public management and development issues.

He worked at Gauteng Provincial Government in the Office of the Director-General of the Province as Director Change Management. In this role he was responsible for supporting the Director –General in leading the corporate strategy of the province in his role as Cabinet Secretary, thereafter he was transferred to the Office of the Premier as Director: Strategy responsible for supporting the Premier in his role as head of the Provincial Government.

He also worked as the Chief Director Corporate Services in the National Department of Environmental Affairs where he was responsible for the provision of effective support services and driving the transformation process that was spearheaded by the Director –General.

Lindiwe has held the position of Chief Director: Tourism Support for the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Director Human Resources: Park Hyatt, Johannesburg, SA. She also held key posts as part of her international experience at Grand Hyatt, Washington DC, Les Roches Hotel Management School, Switzerland amongst others.

Lindiwe belongs to the following professional associations: Board Member of the South African Weather Services, Director of Sandton Tourism Association, Chairperson of Steering Committee of South African Tourism Institute, Member of Sandton Business Improvement District.

Before staring Letsema in 1995, Isaac worked for various companies owned by Barloworld Limited from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 he joined Monitor Consulting Company, a business strategy outfit headquartered in Boston, USA. As a strategy consultant, Isaac has worked on various strategy formulation projects, both for Blue-chip private sector clients and various public sector clients in Government and parastatals.

In addition to his business interest, Isaac is heavily involved in social and community upliftment projects. He has created Letsema Foundation through which he funds most of his social interests.

John was approached to join VWV from TCH Visual Communications a business he co-founded in 1995. With a focus on providing cost-effective solutions for business-to-business communications issues the company grew rapidly and is today a successful part of the VWV Group. The foundation for John’s career in communications began at Ideadata Visual Communications in 1990; the company was a pioneer in the field of Computer-Generated Graphics for commercial use in presentations and exhibition graphics and business-to-business communications. John’s career path here took him from sales executive to sales director within four years.

John is married, has two children, and enjoys sport, reading and time with family and friends.

Jeya has lived in Sri Lanka, Samoa, New Zealand, the United States and Britain. She has been living in South Africa since 1989, and is a South African citizen. She is also the New Zealand Honorary Consul in Durban. Her doctorate in international relations on "Sanctions and South Africa" is from the University of Oxford where she was a Commonwealth Scholar, and distinguished herself by becoming President of the Oxford Union. She has extensive media experience and has been a professional actress, with appearances in stage performances and soap operas in New Zealand. She is married to retired Professor of physics, Dr Dennis Engel and has two dogs, Lord and Rani. Her interests include hiking, playing the guitar and piano, and, previously, riding a 750cc motorcycle.