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Dr Vijay Reddy
Executive Director: ESD
Dr Reddy is the executive director: ESD and holds a PhD in Science Education from
the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Dr Reddy has extensive experience in successfully
managing and overseeing large-scale, long-term collaborative research projects,
such as the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study from 2003 to 2011 (ongoing);
the Literacy and Numeracy Research Programme funded by the Royal Netherlands
Embassy, which started in 2007 and will be concluded in December 2011; the
Department of Labour Critical Research Projects (2007–2008) with follow-up research;
and the Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II, awarded by
the Department of Labour following a competitive application process.
Dr Reddy has been acting DCEO: Management Services effective 16 March 2017.
Prof. Narnia Bohler-Müller
ExecutiveDirector: Democracy, Governance and ServiceDelivery (DGSD)
Prof. Bohler-Müller is the executive director: DGSD and is an adjunct professor at
the University of Fort Hare. She is an admitted advocate of the High Court of SA,
and is leading the Blue Economy Core Group of the Indian Ocean Rim Association.
Her research interests include international and constitutional law, human rights,
democracy, governance and social justice. Her largest project with the Department of
Justice and Constitutional Development, the Constitutional Justice Project, has been
positively received. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the position of public protector.
Prof. Ivan Turok
Executive Director: EPD
Prof. Turok is the executive director: EPD, as well as the editor-in-chief of the journal,
Regional Studies,
and chairman of the City Planning Commission for Durban. He is
also honorary professor at the universities of Cape Town and Glasgow, and has a
PhD in Economics, MSc in Planning and BSc in Geography.
Prof. Turok has 30 years’ teaching experience in urban and regional economics,
policy analysis and evaluation, local labour markets, economic development, urban
regeneration and spatial planning. He has supervised 12 PhDs and many master’s
student to successful completion.
Prof. Khangelani Zuma
Executive Director: RMDC
Prof. Zuma serves as the executive director: RMDC. He was formerly the research
director and head of Biostatistics in the HAST Research Unit. Prof. Zuma holds a PhD
in Statistics from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and an MSc in Biostatistics
from Hasselt University (former Limburgs Universitaire Centrum) in Belgium. He
has over ten years’experience as a statistician and has been involved in large-scale
surveys and clinical trials as a statistician focusing on the conceptualisation, design
and implementation of these studies.
PART C: Governance