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HSRC Annual Report 2016/17
Executive
Management
Prof. Crain Soudien
Prof. Soudien is formerly a deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town
where he remains an emeritus professor in Education and African Studies. His
publications in the areas of social difference, culture, education policy, comparative
education, educational change, public history and popular culture include three
books, four edited collections and over 190 articles, reviews, reports, and book
chapters, including a 2017 publication entitled
Nelson Mandela: Comparative
Perspectives of his Significance for Education.
He is involved in a number of local, national and international social and cultural
organisations and is the chairperson of the Independent Examinations Board, the
former chairperson of the District Six Museum Foundation, former president of the
World Council of Comparative Education Societies and former chair of the Ministerial
Committee on Transformation in Higher Education. He is currently the chair of the
Ministerial Committee to Evaluate Textbooks for Discrimination. He is a fellow of a
number of local and international academies, and serves on the boards of a number
of cultural, heritage, education and civil society structures.
Prof. Leickness Simbayi
DCEO: Research
Prof. Simbayi is the DCEO: Research and the founding executive director of the
HAST Research Programme, the largest and most successful research programme
in the HSRC, a position which he held since its founding in July 2010 until 31 May
2016. Prof. Simbayi joined the HSRC on 1 November 2001 in the position of research
director in charge of the Behavioural and Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Unit
in the then Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health (SAHA) Research Programme, as
well as the regional co-ordinator of SAHARA. He held this position until June 2007,
after which he served as the deputy executive director of the SAHA Programme
until June 2009. After taking on the acting executive director position in February
2008, Prof. Simbayi was appointed as the executive director of SAHA in July 2009,
and held this position until June 2010.
Prof. Simbayi holds a DPhil Degree in Experimental Psychology from the University
of Sussex in England, United Kingdom. He is a registered research psychologist
with the HPCSA’s Professional Board of Psychology and a Member of ASSAf. He is
currently an honorary professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health
at the University of Cape Town.
PART C: Governance