HSRC Integrated Annual Report 2018/2019

Ms Sibiya, a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, studied at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and completed her CA articles with Deloitte in Durban in 1997. She has more than 20 years work experience in the areas of risk management, internal auditing and finance, from junior to executive level of management. The companies she has worked for include, amongst others, SAB, Standard Bank, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Eskom, PRASA and SekelaXabiso. She has served and continues to serve as a member on various boards and audit committees within private and public sector companies in the SADC region. She has also chaired audit and risk committees of various companies. Dr Hamdok has a PhD in Economics from the School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, and is currently working as Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Policy Analyst/Economist by profession, with over thirty years experience with public, private and international organisations, Dr Hamdok has extensive work experience in Africa and the Middle East. Over the years he has developed an interest in economic and social policy analysis, focusing on issues related to sustainable development; strategic and corporate planning; poverty analysis; the labour market; social protection and micro- credit; governance and public financial management and accountability; macroeconomic policies; institutions; capacity development; and resource management. PART C: GOVERNANCE Ms Precious Sibiya Dr Abdalla Hamdok Prof. Bhorat is professor of Economics and director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. He has co-authored two books and published over 150 academic journal articles, book chapters and working papers, covering labour economics, poverty and income distribution. He recently co-edited The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa . He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, an IZA Research Fellow (Institute for the Study of Labour), a member of the World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty and a member of the UN- WHO’s High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. He is a member of the Board of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The World Bank Economic Review . He holds a highly prestigious National Research Chair, is an advisor on the South African Parliament’s High-Level Panel on Acceleration of Change and Transformation and has served as economic advisor to former South African Ministers of Finance. He was also an economic advisor to former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, formally serving on the Presidential Economic Advisory Panel.* Prof. Haroon Bhorat * Resigned 25 March 2019 54 / HSRC INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19