Prof. Firmino G. Mucavele : Chief Executive Officer, New Partnership for Development (NEPAD)

Professor Mucavele, who has authored a large number of publications in his field, holds a PhD in food and resource economics from the University of Florida. He is a member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and a number of other professional associations and also serves as a Special Advisor to the President of Mozambique.He has served as consultant for the USAID, OXFAM Belgica, World Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers in missions of food security analysis, environmental economic analysis, agricultural markets liberalisation in Mozambique and rural development.

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SOLOMOM AFFUN, GPHR, AGM, Human Resources and Administration for Accelon Nigeria Limited

Mr. Affun is AGM, Human Resources and Administration for Accelon Nigeria Limited. Before joining Accelon, he was a Human Resource Officer at Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Celtel) an International GSM Operator in Nigeria. There he was involved in the design and implementation of Human Resource Policies and Procedures and Human Resources Research and Systems Improvement.

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Paul Devine, TMP Worldwide (UK)

Paul Devine was the Head of Digital at TMP Worldwide (UK) a company that provides interactive, Advertising, Branding and Communication solutions to the HR community. During his tenure his team built the career sections of many corporate web sites including: BBC, Nike, Panasonic, Nortel, Barclays, Lloyds TSB, HBOS, Ford, Land Rover, Accenture and multiple local government and medical institutions. Following completion of the sites, Paul and his team would provide a range of employer branding and advertising initiatives to capture qualified applicants. Paul left TMP Worldwide to create an Applicant Tracking Solution (ATS) called Recruitbank and partnered with Global Vision to launch the product in Africa.

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Fred Guest, Managing Consultant, SHL South Africa

Fred Guest is a Registered Industrial Psychologist and Managing Consultant at SHL South Africa, an international occupational psychology and human resource technology firm.

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Henry Chasia – Executive Deputy Chairperson, e-Africa Commission, NEPAD

Dr Chasia is Executive Deputy Chairperson, e-Africa Commission. The Commission was announced in October 2001 by Minister Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburri, Chairperson of the Ministerial Oversight Committee of the African Ministers of Communication. In September 2002, the Commission was adopted by the NEPAD Steering Committee as its Task Team for ICT, responsible for the development and implementation of the NEPAD ICT programme. The Steering Committee action was endorsed by the HSGIC at its meeting in Abuja in November 2002.

In this position, Dr Chasia is the Executive Head of the Commission with responsibility, under NEPAD, to establish the Commission, build its partnership programme, raise the funding, develop and implement the NEPAD ICT projects. The Commission has established its Secretariat at the CSIR, forged a strong partnership programme with the private sector and with three development partners, through which it has raised substantial funding for its work. The implementation of the major NEPAD ICT projects, including the East African Submarine Cable and the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative, has now entered national processes in numerous of African countries.

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Shirley Zinn, Director of Human Resources, Nedbank, South Africa

Prof Shirley Zinn is the Director of HR at Nedbank.she filled the role of Regional Human Resources Director for Middle East and Africa for Reckitt Benckiser, a global company listed on the London Stock Exchange. She holds a BA (UWC); Higher Diploma in Education (UWC); B.Ed Honours (UNISA); M.Ed: Adult Education (UWC); M.Ed: Psychology (Harvard) and Doctorate in Education (Harvard).

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Tina James, Icteum Consulting South Africa

Tina has more than 23 years experience in various aspects of ICTs in developing countries (particularly Africa).She has operated as a consultant since 1997, and recently established icteum consulting, which is based in South Africa. Previously she was joint founder-director of Trigrammic. Her prior work experience includes various ICT-related management positions at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

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Dr Cookie Govender, Stream Leader: Training & Development University of Johannesburg

Dr Cookie Govender is the Stream Leader of Training and Development in the HR Division of the University of Johannesburg (UJ).Currently she manages employee development at all UJ campuses and assists facilitators, assessors and training providers to become SETA accredited by aligning learning and assessment materials to SAQA/NQF standards.

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Charles Henzi, Employee Investment Service Line Leader, DRG Outsourcing

He has authored a dissertation on Customer Service Quality Perception; as a measurement of enterprise performance. More recently Charles was part of the Deloitte Human Capital team as Practice Leader – Employee Performance and Reward, for KwaZulu-Natal/ Eastern Cape.

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Jife Okagbare, Senior Consultant, Deloitte, Nigeria

Jife has a B.Sc in Sociology and Anthropology; University of Benin and M.Ed Management; University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She started her career as a Trainee Consultant with Quality Management Services. After two years she joined Deloitte, Nigeria as an HR Consultant in 1994 and rose to the position of a Senior Consultant.

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MRS. V.A Hagan, Director, Human Resource Management and Development, Ministry of Communications, Ghana

Mrs. Hagan is a Ghanaian and a product of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi and Ghana’s premier University of Ghana, Legon.

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Christine Kasule-Mulimba Human Resource Advisor, Training and Development National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Uganda

Christine Kasule-Mulimba is currently the Human Resource Advisor, Training and Development of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Uganda.She is a member of the Human Resource Managers’ Association of Uganda (HRMAU) and Uganda Management Forum, which is under the British Council. She also holds Organisational Membership for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). She resides in Kampala, Uganda with her husband Elvis and their two children Mirembe and Mwesigwa.

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Jane W. Chege, Senior Assistant Director/Human Resource Management, Ministry of State for Public Service, Kenya

A Human Resource Management graduate of the University of Manchester (UK) with twenty two years experience in managing Human Resources. I have skills in the following areas Recruitment and Selection, Human Resource Planning and Succession Management, Training and Development, Payroll Management, Disciplinary Procedures, Management of medical Schemes, Pension and Staff Welfare Matters, Performance Management including work planning and target setting.

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Dennis Ritter General Manager: e-Shared Services, Systems and People, Analytics Nedbank Group Limited

Dennis is General Manager: e-Shared Services, Systems and People Analytics within Nedbank Group Limited, one of Southern Africa’s top four banking institutions with 24000 employees.He is an advisory board member of the Centre for Education in Management, a regular speaker at knowledge sharing events and is published in the book “Human Capital Management”.

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Michael Glensor, HR Lead Consultatnt- Deloitte Consulting

A well-seasoned, generalist, all encompassing HR Practitioner that has gained considerable experience in various industries such as Mining, Engineering, Consumer Electronics, FMCG and Professional Services/Consulting. Within a short period of time Micheal gained recognition on the South African Board for Personnel Practitioners both as Senior Professional and a Mentor, member of the Institute of Directors, as well as a Life Time Member of the International Association of Business Leaders. His past appointments have involved considerable work involving the implementation of large change and turnaround strategies, including the implementation of the Balanced Scorecard and Business Management Processes

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Dawid Swart, Managing Director, Vizual Business Tools (Pty) Ltd

Human Resource Administration can make or break the HR Executive of an organisation. With that in mind Dawid climbed the corporate ladder after obtaining his B.Soc.Sc and Honours in Industrial Sociology. He became the HR Director of Toyota SA Marketing and the HR Director of McCarthy Motor Holdings. He later realised that he was an entrepreneur and founded Vizual Business Tools (Pty) Ltd – A Human Resources Solutions Company and GAP Junction (Pty) Ltd – A Life Skills Development Company.

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