Prof Charles de Chermont

Director: Ernest and Young
Forensic Investigation

Prof Eon Smith

Extraordinary professor at the NWU Business School

Professor Eon Smit holds the B.Comm. (cum laude), Hons.B.Comm. (cum laude), M.Comm. and D.Comm. degrees from Stellenbosch University  and is emeritus professor and previous Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, visiting professor at Reims Management School in France and professor extraordinaire at Potchefstroom Business School. He lectures in the fields of Business Forecasting, Business Statistics and Derivative Instruments. He is editor of the Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics and the South African Journal of Business Management. 

Mr Ian Rothman

Junior extraordinary research fellow in WorkWell research entity

Mr Sebastiaan Rothman is the Business Intelligence Manager : Afriforte (Pty) Ltd.

Prof Jaap Paauwe

Extraordinary professor in the School of Human Resources Sciences

Jaap Paauwe  is Professor at the department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University. Before joining Tilburg University he worked as a full professor of Organisation at Erasmus University Rotterdam, heading the Department of Business and Organization of the School of Economics. At Erasmus University he is still involved in supervising PhD students.

Jaap Paauwe is specialised in the link between Human Resource Management (HRM) and corporate strategies and how that has an impact on organizational performance  and employee well-being, for which he is also active in advising and consulting organisations, both internationally as well as in the Netherlands. Using a strategic perspective implies attention for issues of leadership, involvement  of line management and employees, corporate culture and organizational change.

Prof Johnny Fontaine

Extraordinary professor at the School of Human Resource Sciences

Prof Johnny Fontaine is a lecturer in psychological assessment and cross-cultural psychology at Ghent University in Belgium and president-elect of the European Association for Psychological Assessment

Prof Keith Engel

Extraordinary professor in the School of Accounting Sciences

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, South African Institute of Tax Practitioners, second-in-command with emphasis on leading all technical issues in terms of tax policy engagement, oversight of technical advice and administrative advice and regularly engage with the print/electronic media.

Prof Ludo Cuyvers

Ludo Cuyvers is an extraordinary professor at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) and emeritus professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals on international trade, export promotion, Asian economic development and the social impact of globalisation.

Prof Cuyvers has authored several books and seminal papers on international economics and export promotion.  He developed the Decision Support Model (DSM), which he originally applied to Belgium's and Thailand’s export situation. Together with Prof Wilma Viviers, he has been involved in comparative research on competitive intelligence and on the identification of South African export opportunities using the DSM.

Prof Cuyvers is a member of the Board of Directors of Flanders Investment and Trade, the Flemish export promotion agency in Belgium. He is also chairman of the European Institute for Asian Studies, a Brussels-based think tank, and member of the Council of Fellows, East Asian Economic Association.  He has received several prizes and awards in Belgium and abroad for his contribution to the fields of international economics and trade.

Dr Marié-Luce Kühn

Extraordinary research scientist in the TRADE research focus area

Marié-Luce Kühn is a founder and director of research company, IBIS Business and Information Services. She obtained her BA and BA (Hons) degrees from Stellenbosch University and completed her Master's and PhD at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). In addition to obtaining her Master's cum laude, Dr Kühn was awarded the Absa Bronze Medal for Best Master's Dissertation in the Humanities. Her PhD (International Trade) focused on the information requirements of South African exporters, an area in which she has a keen interest.

Dr Kühn has impressive research experience. She has numerous published articles to her credit, has contributed chapters to books and has presented a number of papers at international conferences. She has also participated in NRF-funded international research projects covering various export-related themes. She is actively involved in developing competitive intelligence capabilities in companies, and also undertakes research assignments under commission from different organisations.

Some of Dr Kühn’s other academic pursuits include acting as an external examiner and a study leader for postgraduate students.

Prof Peet Strydom

Peet Strydom is an extraordinary professor at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). He studied at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, the Free University in Amsterdam and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, with his main focus areas being Economics, Mathematics and Statistics.

Prof Strydom has made a substantial contribution to international trade-related research, examining classical and neo-classical trade theories within a developed and emerging market context.  He has paid particular attention to the role of human capital and outsourcing in trade patterns around the world, while accommodating economic growth in an open economy framework.

Prof Strydom is well known in the private sector, having held the positions of senior economist at Central Merchant Bank and chief economist at Sankorp Limited in Johannesburg.  He has published extensively in esteemed journals on macroeconomics and international economics and co-authored several books. He is an honorary member of the Economic Society of South Africa.

Prof Raymond Parsons

Raymond Parsons is a professor at the North-West University Business School and an extraordinary professor in the TRADE research focus area.  He studied economics at the Universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Copenhagen, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) where he is also an honorary professor and member of the University Council.

Prof Parsons is a recognised authority on the South African economy and its implications for business, and has played a leading role in organised business for many years.  He is also a key contributor to public and academic debate on a broad spectrum of issues that help shape South Africa's economic and political character. Until recently, Prof Parsons was the deputy CEO of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) and remains a special policy advisor to that organisation.  He was also the overall national convenor at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) until 2010, and is a past director-general of the South African Chamber of Business (SACOB).  In 2004, former President Thabo Mbeki appointed Prof Parsons to the board of directors of the SA Reserve Bank and he was reappointed to this position in 2008.

Prof Parsons is the author/editor of five books, including the 2013 release 'Zumanomics Revisited: from Mangaung to 2030', and also a co-developer of the NWU Policy Uncertainty Index (PUI) which is published quarterly. 

Prof Riaan Rossouw

Riaan Rossouw is a micro-economist with more than ten years' consulting, research and teaching experience. As an extraordinary associate professor in the School of Economics at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), he has wide-ranging knowledge in most economic sectors, as well as economic development as a whole.  Prof Rossouw is part of the technical and programming team of the TRADE-DSM® (Decision Support Model) and developed the DSM Dashboard. 

Prof Rossouw’s research interests include social and economic dimensions of inequality and applied/computable general equilibrium modelling, particularly as applied in the African (and South African) context. Special focus areas are regional disparities, labour markets, fiscal reform, tourism, energy policy, decision support systems, development planning and international trade.

Prof Rossouw has carried out consultancy work for various industries (both local and international), from governmental departments, financial institutions and private manufacturing concerns, through to real economy institutions such as mining houses, freight transport companies and utility providers. He has much field experience in southern Africa, and has taught both students and development practitioners.

Dr Stuart Mc Chlery

Extraordinary associate professor in the School of Accounting Sciences

Prof Stuart McChlery from Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. 

Adv Tommy Prins

Extraordinary associate professor at the School of Accounting Sciences

Prof Tommy Prins is a director in Deloitte Forensic and the Head of Investigations with an oversight role over South Africa, East Africa and the Southern Corridor. Prior to taking up his present position, Tommy had joined the Department of Justice on 1 January 1979. After serving one year as a public prosecutor in the Magistrate’s Courts in Wellington, Alberton and Wynberg (Cape Province), he was transferred to the Office of the Attorney General in Cape Town (January 1980) as State Advocate. Tommy was promoted to the rank of Senior State Advocate and subsequently promoted to the position of Deputy Attorney General in April 1992. Tommy was a founder member of the Office for Serious Economic Offences (OSEO) and headed the Office for Serious Economic Offences in Cape Town from 1992 until 2000. When the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) or the “Scorpions” was established in 2000 he was appointed as the Regional Head - Western Cape responsible for the Western and Northern Cape. He held this position until the end of October 2003 when he joined Deloitte.