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