MPhil Lecturers

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Renewable Energy Policy and coordination of the Renewable Energy stream on the MPhil programme

Curriculum Vitae:

Alan Brent is a chemical engineer by background with Masters degrees in environmental sciences and technology management, and a PhD in engineering management. Since 1995 he consulted to a variety of industry and public sectors in South Africa and other developing countries in the fields of environmental engineering and management, as a project manager in the Environmental Process Solutions group of the Material Science and Manufacturing unit of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). In 2002 he was tasked to establish the Automotive Industry Development Centre (AIDC) Chair of Life Cycle Engineering in the Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM) of the University of Pretoria. Through his appointment as an extraordinary professor the GSTM continues to conduct research on sustainable life cycle management practices in the private and public sectors, which is also a focus area of the academic programmes of the GSTM. In 2006 he returned to the CSIR to initiate and lead research in the Resource Based Sustainable Development competency area of the Natural Resources and the Environment unit that promotes sustainable development in management and planning practices, primarily in the energy sector.

In 2009 he was appointed as a professor in the Sustainable Development division of the School of Public Management and Planning (SOPMP) of Stellenbosch University, where he is also the associate director of the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies. He is responsible for the renewable energy policy component of the Sustainable Development Planning and Management academic programme at the Sustainability Institute, where he is now based. His ongoing research efforts aim to improve the planning and management of sustainable technological systems. To this end he has published over 50 journal articles and a number of chapters in text books, has presented over 40 conference papers in the international sustainability-oriented, and engineering and technology management, communities, and actively participates in the UNEP Global Life Cycle Initiative.

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Complexity Theory and Systems Thinking (Co-Convenor with Eve Annecke)

Curriculum Vitae:

Paul Cilliers is in the Philosophy Department of the University of Stellenbosch where he teaches cultural philosophy, deconstruction, ethics and logic for philosophy. After initially qualifying and then working as an electrical engineer, he completed a D.Phil in 1994 on complexity theory. Much of this work, together with post-doctoral research, was published in an internationally renowned book entitled Complexity and Postmodernism, which has recently been translated into Chinese. This is a particularly exceptional achievement for a book which opens up vast new possibilities. Understanding Complex Systems (London: Routledge, 1998). Paul has also been asked to contribute, in the form of an interview with him, to a new book on complexity theory which will include the 'who's who' of international names on complexity theory. One such name is that of Murray Gell-Mann, also a Nobel Prize winner.
 

Paul continues to publish in local and international journals. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Boston, USA, and at the Institut für Philosophie, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany (2000). His current research areas include complexity theory, post-structuralism, cultural philosophy, and philosophy of science.

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Development Planning, Environmental Research and Analysis (Co-Convenor with Anneke Muller)

Curriculum Vitae:

Piet Claassen is senior lecturer emeritus at Stellenbosch University, specialising in planning and environmental management systems, in particular the integration of the systems for spatial planning, development planning and conservation of the natural and cultural environment. He has contributed substantially to these subjects through publications, conferences and participation in professional associations. As consultant to several municipalities he specialised in the analysis of the socio-economic and natural environment, and environmental impact assessments.

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• Applied Economics (Guest lecturer)
• Specialist inputs on various modules

Curriculum Vitae:

Martin de Wit has a Doctorate in Economics, and specialises in managing the risks of, and finding solutions to, environmental problems. He won the CSIR’s Young Scientist Award in 2003. Martin has chosen the entrepreneurial route in the knowledge market, and was co-responsible for starting, growing and managing a successful business unit within the CSIR focussed on applied environmental and resource economics between 2001 and 2004. He has since started his own advisory firm, De Wit Sustainable Options (Pty) Ltd in 2005, and with its global network-based approach ensures cutting-edge thinking and flexibility in the new and rapidly changing world of economics and environmental management. Martin is appointed as Extra-Ordinary Associate Professor at the University of Stellenbosch as from 2007, and co-edited two books namely Sustainable Options. Development lessons from Applied Environmental Economics and The Political Economy of Natural Resource Wealth in South Africa. He is also author and co-author of twenty-five peer reviewed publications, books and book chapters and serves as peer reviewer to several international and national journals. He has a wide interest in national and international affairs and has worked on many research and client reports, and consulted to a wide range of clients including national and provincial governments, corporate business, non government organizations, and universities, working in several countries including South Africa, China, Portugal, Germany, Holland, United States, Namibia and Mozambique. Martin is also involved in a small company focussed on poverty alleviation and job creation on the Cape Flats and serves as Chairperson of a local school board. He is married to Rianne and has three kids.

Qualifications: Doctor Commercii, University of Pretoria, 2001; Magister (Doctorandus), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RuG), 1995; Honnours, University of Stellenbosch, 1994; Baccalaureus Commerci, cum laude, University of Pretoria, 1992.

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Corporate Citizenship (Co-Convenor with Malcolm McIntosh)

Curriculum Vitae:

Ralph lives in Johannesburg with his wife Patrizia and son Noah.  He is currently Head of Research at the UNISA Centre for Corporate Citizenship and is also visiting lecturer at the UNISA School for Business Leadership and the Sustainability Institute at Stellenbosch University.  Ralph has an MSc (with distinction) from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK).  The PhD was on corporate social responsibility in mining in South Africa.  He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on corporate citizenship or sustainable development, as well as many media or magazine articles.  His work has been featured in South African and international media, including, for instance, Business Day, CNN International, and The Times (London).  Ralph has experience working as full-time consultant in environmental / strategic impact assessment, and he has worked as contract consultant to a range of private and public sector organizations in South Africa, the UK, and elsewhere.

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Leadership and Ethics (Co-Convenor with Eve Annecke)

Curriculum Vitae:

Johan Hattingh is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch. Based at this university since 1980 he has extensive experience in the teaching of Practical Logic and Critical Thinking Skills, Philosophy of Culture, Hermeneutics, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Poststructuralist Thought, in particular that of Michel Foucault. His Master’s degree was about Martin Heidegger’s critical conception of technology, while he focussed in his Doctoral dissertation on the philosophical problem of the relationship between art and morality.

In the last ten years he specialized in Applied Ethics, Ideology Critique, Development Ethics, and particularly in Environmental Ethics. Since 1992 he has been Head of the Unit for Environmental Ethics at the University of Stellenbosch, and from 1998 he was Visiting Professor in Development Ethics in a Master’s Programme in Development Studies of the Graduate School of Leadership in the Faculty of Management Sciences at the University of the North. With more than forty academic publications to his credit, and about 70 papers at academic conferences, he finds it fascinating to work at the interface of theory and practice in the analysis of value disputes in the context of policy formulation, environmental decision-making and environmental management. In this regard, he follows and further develops the case study method in Applied Ethics.

Examples of some of these case studies can be found in his publications on Shell’s oil extraction operations in Ogoniland in Nigeria, the location of an incinerator for the disposal of the toxic waste of an ammunitions factory in the vicinity of poor neighbourhoods in the Western Cape, or the value issues involved in decision-making about the question whether South Africa should extend its nuclear-based electricity generation capacity or not. (These publications can be downloaded from his web site)

On post-graduate level Johan Hattingh teaches Environmental Ethics in two Master’s Programmes at the University of Stellenbosch. Within the framework of a taught M.Phil. Programme in Applied Ethics in the Dapertment of Philosophy, Environmental Ethics is one of the areas of specialization in the second year of study. Environmental Ethics is also a core module in a multi-disciplinary Master’s Programme in which six departments from four faculties participate. He has acted as supervisor or co-supervisor of 7 completed Doctoral dissertations and 27 completed Master’s theses. He is currently supervising the research projects of 4 Doctoral and 18 Master’s students, some of whom hail from as far as Zimbabwe, Kenya and Chile. The holder of numerous research grants from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, Johan and his colleague from Cardiff University, Robin Attfield, received generous funding from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, in collaboration with the British Adacemy, for a research project in 2001 and 2002 on the concept of sustainable development within the context of developing countries. While 2001 was devoted to a conceptual analysis of the concepts of ecological sustainability and sustainable development, the work in 2002 was devoted to exploring the relationship between sustainable development, sustainable livelihoods and land reform in South Africa.

In his current research, Johan focuses on the problem of integrating ethical considerations in environmental decision-making, and he further envisages to explore indigenous knowledge systems with a view to stimulate the development of an explicit home-grown environmental ethics appropriate to conditions and concerns in Southern Africa. Holder of the 1996 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Stellenbosch, he also is:

• Africa representative of the International Society for Environmental Ethics
• Member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Ethics
• Full member of AccountAbility: The UK-based Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability
• Editor of the section on Environmental Ethics of the newly established Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, Ethics and Action
• Co-editor and co-author of Environmental Education, Ethics and Action, a monograph of the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA) that was written for the WSSD in Johannesburg in August 2002

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Various inputs into the Sustainable Agriculture specialisation and contributor to various modules.

Curriculum Vitae:

Gareth Haysom is employed by the Sustainability as the Programme Manager of the Sustainable Agriculture Programme and is appointed by Stellenbosch University in the School of Public Management and Planning as an Extra-Ordinary Lecturer. He has a Diploma in Hotel Management and spent many years managing various tourism and hotel facilities in various parts of South Africa. In 2007 he graduated cum laude with a MPhil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management from Stellenbosch University, with a research project that developed a strategic development planning framework for the Western Cape town of Grabouw. He has extensive experience in management, entrepreneurial development, project facilitation, research and more recently in educational facilitation in the sustainable agriculture field.  

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Energy Efficient Cities (Co-Convenor with Mark Swilling)

Curriculum Vitae:

Daniel Irurah is a Kenyan architect who has been a Permanent Resident of South Africa since June 1999. He is a registered architect both in South Africa and Kenya. He is a Senior Lecturer (teaching, research and postgraduate supervision) in Sustainability and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand. He is also one of the directors in Syn-Consult Africa (Pty) Ltd: a consultancy firm working on sustainability and the built environment. He holds a PhD in Architecture (University of Pretoria), Master of Architecture(M.Arch.) and Master of Urban Planning (MUP) (University of Oregon, USA). He holds a Bachelor of Architecture, First Class Honors (University of Nairobi, Kenya).

His PhD Thesis focused on application of the input-output model in analysis of embodied energy of construction materials and buildings in South Africa. His M. Arch. Thesis focused on climatic response, energy conservation and renewable energy for buildings within inter-tropical regions. His interest in sustainability in architecture began in his undergraduate training (1979-85) at the University of Nairobi. This was inspired by courses in environmental control (lighting, thermal and acoustics for indoor environments). He pursued this field further in his M. Arch. program (1989-91) at the University of Oregon (USA). While doing his M. Arch. he undertook a concurrent degree in Masters of Urban Planning (MUP) with a focus on energy and environmental policy analysis for urban areas. The M. Arch. programme focused on daylighting, renewable energy and energy conservation in architecture. This led to his M. Arch. thesis titled: Strategic climatic response in architecture for Nairobi, Kenya.

After a teaching stint at the University of Nairobi (1991-94) and specialised consultancy in acoustics and materials in low cost housing, Irurah embarked on research for his PhD (1995-97) at the University of Pretoria. This led to his PhD thesis on embodied energy analysis for building construction in South Africa based on input-output model. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Pretoria until June 1998 when he took up a full-time teaching and research post at the University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Architecture. In the 7 years after his PhD, Irurah has undertaken academic and consultancy research on various issues and for different clients including:

• Cradle-to-grave impacts of building construction materials (Earthlife Africa and Centre for Development of the Built Environment)
• Sustainable housing policy for City of Johannesburg
• Environmentally sound energy efficient low-cost housing (USAID/Department of Housing, World Bank etc.)
• Technical monitoring of energy efficient low-cost housing (PEER Africa, Kimberley)
• Cost benefit analysis of location of low cost housing settlements in urban areas of South Africa (USAID and Housing Finance Resource Programme – HFRP)
• Medium density housing programme (Department of Housing)

In 1999 he qualified as a Certified Targeted Procurement Professional under the Department of Public Works’ (DPW) Affirmative Procurement Programme. His teaching in design and construction focuses on the theme of intrinsic and extrinsic performance criteria and targets for buildings as processes and systems in interaction with other systems and processes. Resource conservation, reuse and recycle, renewable energy, job creation and life cycle costing as performance fields in design are some of the topics covered in his courses and research. One of his student's entry (co-tutored with Lone Poulsen and Johan Vorster) into a sustainability-in-architecture competition (July 2000) was selected as a winning project in one of the categories. The competition was organised by Oxford Brookes University in UK and attracted entries from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America (under European Commission sponsorship).

Irurah himself has won academic and professional merit awards including a Fulbright Scholarship (US Government), a Certificate of Merit on a co-authored entry into a competition on Eco-Village and Eco-Coastal Settlements organised by the International Federation of Young Architects (IFYA) in 1993. A recently-held Solar Academy for Southern Africa which he organised at WITS in collaboration with ISES (International Solar Energy Society) and SESSA (Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa) was awarded the SESSA Renewable Energy Project of the Year Award (2002). One of his current responsibilities at WITS is the co-ordination of WITS’ participation in a DANCED-funded initiative of southern African universities for an exchange of students and staff with Danish universities and teaching/research capacity building on the theme of environmental management for urban and industrial areas.

Since 2000 Irurah has been a founding partner and Director in Syn-Consult Africa (PTY) Ltd which is a consultancy on sustainability in the built environment. The consultancy has undertaken several key projects for Department of Housing (National and Gauteng Province), and City of Johannesburg. He is also a Director of the GreenHouse Project: an NGO based in Johannesburg and focusing on dissemination of best practice approaches in sustainable construction and livelihoods.

SAMPLE OF RESEARCH OUPUTS DISSERTATIONS (UNPUBLISHED):

• Irurah, D. K. 1997. An embodied-energy algorithm for energy conservation in building construction as applied to South Africa. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, S. Africa.
• Irurah, D. K. 1991. Strategic Climatic Response in Architecture for Nairobi, Kenya. M. Arch. Thesis, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA. Available in Microfilm from University Microfilms Inc., 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor Michigan. Publication No. 1345948, School 0171M ORE-E-M.

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:

• Du Plessis C., Irurah, D. and Scholes, R. 2003. The built environment and climate change in South Africa. Building Research & Information (2003) 31 (3 – 4). 240 –256.
• Irurah, D. K., Stone, J. and Kammeyer, H. 2000. Construction deconstructed: Value systems and the teaching of technology in architecture. S. A. Architect. July/August 2000. 67 - 9.
• D. Holm, Irurah D. K. and Stroh, A. 2000. Application of input-output method of energy analysis in estimating process energy intensities. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 11(1). 161 - 5.
• Irurah, D. K. and D. Holm 1999. Energy impact analysis in building construction as applied to South Africa. Construction Management and Economics. 17/3. 363 - 74.

BOOK AND CHAPTER IN A BOOK:

• Irurah, D. K. and Boshoff, B. 2003. An interpretation of sustainable development and urban sustainability in low-cost housing and settlements in South Africa. In Harrison, P., Huchzermeyer, M. and Mayekiso, M. Confronting fragmentation: Housing and urban development in a democratising society. Cape Town. UCT Press. pp. 244 – 262.
• Irurah, D. K., Bannister, S., Silverman, M. and Zack, T. 2002. Towards sustainable settlements: Case studies from South Africa. Johannesburg: STE Publishers (commissioned by the Department of Housing, South Africa).

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Globalization, Governance and Civil Society (Co-Convenor with Mark Swilling)

Curriculum Vitae:

Mazibuko Jara is Editor of Amandla (a Cape-based political journal), an independent researcher and writer, and development consultant. He has an engineering degree from University of KwaZulu-Natal and a masters degree from University of the Western Cape. He has a long history of grassroots activist work with the HIV/AIDS movement, the cooperative movement and community-based development organisations. He was formerly media officer of the South African Communist Part but has fallen out of favour with the SACP leadership. He has extensive global experience working with alliances and coalitions that are critical of corporate-led finance-dominated modes of globalisation and which articulate alternatives that are consistent with the principles of social justice and ecological sustainability.

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Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture (Course Convenor)

Curriculum Vitae:

Dr. Tarak Kate has an Msc and Phd in Botany, and for the last 22 years has specialised in appropriate technology, organic recycling, sustainable agriculture, renewable enrgy, and waste utilization. His main work is helping small farmers in India with holdings of less than two acres to maximize returns from their land. Central to his program is an emphasis on a bio-diversification, geared to the needs of local farmers, that comprises sericulture, pisciculture, animal rearing, poultry farming, crop cultivation, land banking and watershed management on land previously cultivated only for staple and cash crops. This package ensures diversified agricultural output throughout the year, a steady supply of crops for personal and market consumption, and gainful employment of members of farmers’ families on their land. Regular rotation of crops and the placement of animal wastes on lands replenishes soil nutrients.

Dr. Kate established his organization, Dharamitra, in 1991 with his wife Chitra. Today, it is a team of eight people, six of whom are scientists. Each scientist/activist has evolved a bio-mass program and works with villages to plan the spread of the project. Tarak launched his work in a semi-tribal village in the district of Wardha. Tarak is working in conjunction with the Association of Sarva Seva Farms (ASSEFA), an organization operative in 120 villages in two districts—Wardha and Yaovatmal. He is using the infrastructure of this organization to set up Farmers’ Study Groups in each village. The Farmers Study Group is the intellectual wing of the Gram Sabha, or the traditional village council of all the residents of the village. Every Farmers’ Study Group with a membership strength of 20 to 45 farmers is an interactive forum of farmers. Discussions and debates are initiated by the facilitators of Dharamitra to create awareness among them of sustainable non-chemical agriculture and to equip them with the skills to create customized ways of leveraging bio-mass. Use of bio-dynamic kitchens, horticulture and sericulture plots, mulberry plantations, training programs for tribal honey-hunters and experiments in rearing cattle to supplement the bio-resources of villages has gained momentum. One villager is making health soap from cow dung and another has discovered a new way of producing phenyle, a disinfectant. Farmers’ Study Groups have also visited eco-farms set up by other organizations and innovative farmers. Similarly farmers’ workshops are organized by Dharamitra to facilitate exchange of information and experience in bio-diverse farming.

An indicator of the impact of Tarak’s program is that 50 percent of farmers in the participating villages have reduced the use of fertilizers by half and 450 acres of degraded land have been treated by more than 150 farms after training in soil conservation and watershed management. Tarak has also set up a model experimental farm on 2.25 acres to give marginal farmers a blueprint of land management so they can draw their subsistence needs from their own holding. The experimental farm produces almost everything needed by a family of five and yields as many as six varieties of food grains and various kinds of fruits and vegetables. Tarak has also planted approximately 1,000 teak samplings. The farm’s boundaries are fenced with trees that yield fuelwood. A variety of grass and weeds provide fodder for his cows. He also has plots for mushroom cultivation and sericulture. A small fish pond and a poultry farm complete the model farm. The yield of wheat from Tarak’s farm, over a period of one year, has more than doubled. The model has encouraged villagers and built confidence in his organization and its rationale. Tarak plans to work extensively in all the villages of the Vidharba region in Maharashtra. Simultaneously, he is organizing camps, training programs and slide shows for groups that will help carry his model beyond this region. He has identified organizations with similar programs, such as watershed management or bio-gas development initiative, to involve them in the spread and implementation of his concept. Tarak also plans to set up a documentation training center, the Technology Resource Centre in Watershed Management and Alternative Agriculture. It will train grassroots development agencies working in the Vidhraba region in sustainable agricultural technologies.

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Overall Co-Ordinator of the Sustainable Agriculture Programme and contributor to various modules within this specialisation 

Curriculum Vitae:

Candice Kelly graduated cum laude from BPhil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management in 2006 and completed her MPhil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management in 2007. She has Bachelor of Business Science Honours (Finance) from UCT and has worked for developers in various capacities. Her MPhil thesis was on sustainable agriculture, comparing the potential of organic farming approaches for small farmers in India and South Africa. She was appointed the Co-ordinator of the Sustainable Agriculture specialisation in November 2007 in the Sustainability Institute. She is responsible for the co-ordinating a complex partnership between emerging farmers, Stellenbosch University's Faculty of AgriSciences, various NGOs and Stellenbosch Municipality with respect to land reform initiatives.

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• Applied Economics (Convenor)
• Inputs in the following modules: Development Planning Theory and Practice; Globalisation, Governance and Civil Society.

Curriculuym Vitae:

Firoz Khan holds a Masters in Town and Regional Planning from the University of Natal (Durban). Firoz has worked in the NGO (Centre for Community and Labour Studies – Durban; Isandla Institute – Cape Town), University (School of Public Policy and Management – University of Durban Westville) and Government sector/s as senior Researcher, Lecturer and Manager of the Parliamentary Research Unit, respectively. He has contributed to various policy documents including the White Paper on Local Government (Department of Provincial and Local Government); White Paper on Public Service Training and Education (Department of Public Service and Administration); Strategic Framework for Promoting Municipal-Community Partnerships (for the Department of Provincial and Local Government and funded by the United States Agency for International Development); and, more recently, the Local Economic Development Policy Framework (Department of Provincial and Local Government). He is currently working with the Department of Housing in the revision of the Housing White Paper (1995). His work in local government spans both policy research and technical assistance funded by donors and aid agencies (includes USAid, DFID, IDRC, Oxfam, Mott Foundation, Interfund); national and international universities; international organisations (UNDP, UNCHS, UMP), non-governmental organisations; national departments, and, various municipalities. He has published fairly extensively in national and international journals in the areas of globalisation, local economic development, urban restructuring, institutional transformation, informality and poverty-eradication. His most recent publications include two (co-authored) articles in Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment (Juta/UCT Press); and a book - co-edited with Petal Thring- titled Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Heinemann).

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Sustainable Development (Guest Lecturer)

Curriculum Vitae:

Ian Macdonald is one of Southern Africa's leading conservationists. Currently practicing as an independent environmental consultant, he was previously Director of Conservation and then Chief Executive of WWF South Africa (WWF is known as World Wildlife Fund or World Wide Fund for Nature). For 31 years he worked as an ecologist and nature conservator (Zimbabwe, Southern Kalahari, Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park in Zululand, and throughout southern Africa while at the University of Cape Town prior to joining WWF). His doctoral studies on biological invasions took him to several oceanic islands and he has studied nature on all the inhabited continents. An experienced lecturer, his hobbies include bird watching, snorkeling on coral reefs, sea swimming, scuba diving, hiking, reading and good cinema. Married to Susan Alison Macdonald, he has three grown-up sons. He holds four university degrees and has researched and published extensively in the fields of range management, ornithology, biological invasions, desertification, game park management, global climate change and, most recently, in nature conservation management. He is a member of numerous professional organizations and boards, and has been President of the Southern African Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Scientists, Vice President of the Wildlife and Environmental Society of South Africa, Chairman of the South African National Committee of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and Vice Chairman of the Invasive Species Specialist Group of IUCN's Species Survival Commission. He has chaired several boards such as those of The Table Mountain Fund, The Green Trust and the Leslie Hill Succulent Karoo Trust.

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Corporate Citizenship (Co-Convenor with Ralph Hamann)

Curriculum Vitae:

Malcolm McIntosh is Professor and Director of the Applied Research Centre in Human Security at Coventry University. This is the first such transdisciplinary department in the UK. He is the head of research and teaching on sustainability, human rights, corporate responsibility, regeneration, social enterprise, development and other related issues. He is also an Extra-Ordinary Professor in the School of Public Management and Planning at Stellenbosch University.

Malcolm has had working experience in business, government and civil society and has established successful companies, NGOs and teaching programmes in many parts of the world. In the last few years he has worked closely with a divergent group of organisations including Royal Dutch/Shell, BP, ABB, Norsk Hydro, Johnson & Johnson, BT and the UN Secretary-General's Office, the ILO, UNEP, OHCHR, and the British and Norwegian governments.

He has taught and made presentations at numerous venues including the Royal Institute for International Affairs, INSEAD, the Judge Institute at Cambridge University, Warwick Business School and Harvard University's Kennedy School. He is a Visiting Professor in the Institute for International Policy Analysis and the International Centre for the Environment at the University of Bath, England, and the Sustainability Institute at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is also General Editor of the quarterly Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Editor of the annual Visions of ethical business and a Member of the Governing Council of the Institute for Social & Ethical AccountAbility.

Malcolm gained his Masters and Doctorate from the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce (FRSA). Malcolm is a former Director of the Corporate Citizenship Unit at Warwick Business School in England and European Director of the New York-based Council on Economic Priorities. His most recent publications include:

• McIntosh, M. et al 'Living Corporate Citizenship: Strategic Routes To Socially Responsible Business' (September 2002) Financial Times & Pearson, London
• McIntosh, M. 'Raising A Ladder To The Moon: Corporate Citizenship In The 21st Century' (forthcoming 2003) Palgrave, London & New York.
• McIntosh, M. and Andriof, J. (Editors) 'Perspectives On Corporate Citizenship' (2001) Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield.
• McIntosh, M. and Thomas, R. 'Corporate Citizenship & Evolving Relations With NGOs' (2002) with a forward by Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chair of Anglo-American and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, published by British-North America Research Committee. London, New York and Toronto.
• McIntosh. M. (Editor) 'Visions of ethical business 1-4' (1998-2002) PricewaterhouseCoopers, Financial Times & Malcolm McIntosh, London
• McIntosh, M. (Editor) 'Global Companies In The Twentieth Century: Selected Archival Histories' (2001) Routledge, London.
• McIntosh, M et al 'Corporate Citizenship' (1998) Financial Times, London. September 2002

Malcolm McIntosh 242 Bloomfield Road, Bath BA2 2AX, UK T/F: +44 (0)1225 447184 E: malcolm.mcintosh@btinternet.com

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• Overall Convenor of the Development Planning specialisation
• Development Planning Theory and Practice (Convenor)
• Development Planning Systems, Policy and Law (Convenor)
• Specialist inputs on various development planning modules

Curriculum Vitae:

Anneke Muller is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Management and Planning. She was appointed to this position in 1997 as part of the Department of Town and Regional Planning. She teaches development planning theory and practice and is completing her Phd on development planning systems in South Africa in comparative perspective. She obtained her BSc degree with Geology and Geography majors at Stellenbosch University in 1981 and completed her Masters degree in Town and Regional Planning (cum laude) at Stellenbosch University in 1983. She worked for the Provincial Administration Western Cape from March 1983 to 1996 in various sections, dealing with planning control, development projects in the Cape Metropole, low income housing, research and data, planning legislation and planning policy. She was promoted to Deputy Chief Town and Regional Planner in 1993, which position was adjusted to Chief Town and Regional Planner in 1996. In 1999 she was awarded her B.Juris degree with distinction through UNISA Anneke Muller has worked as a consultant across a range of projects. This included the drafting of the Western Cape Planning and Development Act, first as provincial official and then as advisor to provincial staff. The Act was approved and published as Western Cape Act 7 of 1999. Also sat on a review panel that advised and reviewed the work of a consultant firm on the regulations and policies of this Act. During 2000 she advised the former Cape Metropolitan Government on the issues relating to the lapsing of land use rights in terms of the Land Use Planning Ordinance (LUPO), which after consultation with the Province lead to the amendment of LUPO during 2001. Also advised Metropolitan Transport Advisory Board on Century City development rights and procedures. During 2001 and 2002 she was involved with combining and revising the zoning schemes of Oostenberg (now part of the new Cape Town Municipality) and Stellenbosch Municipalities. Speciality interests and research areas include inter alia planning law, legislation and policy, urban and land development management, flexible zonings, planning theory, illegal land invasions, informal and low income housing.

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Sustainable Cities (Co-Convenor with Mark Swilling)

Curriculum Vitae:

Professor Edgar Pieterse is the Director of the Centre for Cities in Africa, University of Cape Town. From 2004-2007, he was appointed Special Policy Advisor in the Office of the Premier, Western Cape Provincial Government. He is a co-founder and Board member of the Sustainability Institute. He is also co-founder and Director of the Isandla Institute, a development policy think-tank. He has worked extensively in the NGO sector in South Africa in various capacities, ranging from policy research (including local governance, democratisation, urban policy, NGO enablement, gender), to training and management. In 1995 he obtained his Masters Degree in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands and his PHd from London School of Economics in 2006. 

His PhD dissertation was based on research that seeks to trace and analyse government policies in South Africa aimed at promoting ‘urban integration’ since democratisation in 1994. His most notable consulting work involved both policy research and process facilitation with government agencies, donor organisations and civil society structures. For example, during 1998 – 2000, he provided policy research and development support to the South African Non-government Organisation Coalition (SANGOCO) on issues pertaining to poverty reduction and macro economic policy. During 2000, he worked closely with the Board of the National Development Agency in South Africa to assist them with formulating a strategic policy framework on poverty eradication to guide their funding decisions.

A significant international contract was with the Urban Management Programme (UMP is a joint programme of UNDP, the World Bank and Habitat) during 1999. This project involved assessing the experience of the UMP in promoting city consultations in four regions in the world, towards writing a policy manual for municipal practitioners on constructing participatory governance systems in their own cities and towns. One of the more ambitions projects that Edgar Pieterse worked on was a contract with the Unicity Commission in Cape Town, leading up to the second democratic local government elections in December 2000. The work entailed the formulation of a provisional city development strategy and a detailed process proposal to establish a multi-stakeholder forum in Cape Town. It is envisaged that the stakeholder forum will lead an inclusive process to formulate a twenty-year vision for the city and a series of programmes to progressively realise the vision.

In addition to the management of Isandla Institute and consultancy assignments, Edgar Pieterse also maintains a keen academic interest through teaching and writing. He teaches ‘urban development in the South’ on a postgraduate programme at the University of Cape Town (Geography department). His most recent published writing is on urban policy in South Africa, metropolitan governance and strategic planning, social formations in South Africa, poverty eradication and capacity building, and development theory. He is also co-editor of a book, Democratising Local Government – the Emerging South African Experiment (UCT Press). His most recent book was the acclaimed ten year review entitled the Poetics, Policies and Politcs of the Transition which was published in 2004.