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EXPERIENCE

Highlights

2024

DESIGNED AND DELIVERED THE DUBAI ECONOMIC LEADERS PROGRAMME

Worked with the Executive Office of Dubai to design and deliver its flagship leadership development programme, working alongside Nobel=prize winner Daron Acemoglu, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell, and CEO of The Atlantic, Nicholas Thompson.

2018 - 2020

GROWING FOXES EDUCATION PROGRAMME ROLLOUT

Roll out the Growing Foxes Programme, on bespoke web-based platform, to tens of thousands of high school students in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia and the United Kingdom.

2018 - 2023

DESIGNER AND FACILITATOR OF THE AFRICAN UNION EMERGING LEADERS PROGRAMME

Designed and facilitated the African Union’s Emerging Leaders Programme in Addis Ababa, in 2018, 2019, and 2020, bringing together outstanding emerging leaders from every country on the African continent.

2019

LEAD - SADC SCENARIOS TO 2050

Led a multi-stakeholder team that developed the South African Development Community’s (SADC) Scenarios for the SADC Vision 2050 Strategic Development Plan.

2017

PUBLICATION - FAKE NEWS: A ROAD MAP

Author of When Dishonesty is the Best Policy: Lying as a Strategy in Leadership,  in Fake News: A Roadmap, published by the NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence (2017). This was adopted as evidence in the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into Disinformation and Fake News.

EDUCATION

Degrees and Achievements

King's College London

MASTERS

Intelligence and International Security, Distinction

University of Cape Town

HONOURS

Philosophy, Distinction

University of Cape Town

BSOCSCI

Philosophy and International Relations

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Class Medal: Foreign Policy Analysis

Dean's Merit List

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