EXCO MEMBERS
Prof Liandi van den Berg
Dr Martin Chanza
Mr Koos De Villiers
Dr Gordon Matthew
Dr Deborah Mokgojwa
Prof Clarise Mostert
Dr Kelebogile Paadi
Dr Veruschka Pelser-Carstens
EXTRA-ORDINARY PROFESSORS
Prof Terrence Kommal
Member: Extraordinary professor of practice
About: Dr Terrence Kommal is a medical doctor with a range of interests. He strikes a keen balance between the medical world and the business world seeing medicine as a ‘calling’ and business as a ‘passion.’ His medical training ranges from basic to advanced life support, with training credentials from US to India, and UK to South Africa. He is also a well-recognised academic. Dr. Terrence Kommal is the Appointed Executive Director: The Ayurvedic Foundation of South Africa (TAFSA) Presented on behalf of TAFSA as a lead expert to the High Commissioner of India, HE Shringla, and the international panel on Ayurveda and Integrative Medicines. Dr. Terrence Kommal is the CEO of Kommal Holdings (Pty) Ltd. The Groups owns Kommal Publishing, that publishes SUTRA Magazine, as well as SUTRA Media, a specialised media company. As young and dynamic business professional, he has been a part of a tons of delegations, forums, discussions, and meetings with various levels of business leaders in SA and internationally. Dr Terrence Kommal possesses advanced strategic management skills with a technical and programmatic approach to business development services. A highly successful and comprehensively qualified academic, medical, military and business individual, with 11 years of international, multi—cultural experience, within a modern production high-volume environments. His strategic capabilities and innovative and continuous engagement with technology within various sectors ensure that he fits well into TELIT-SA’s enabling goals for the future digitisation of organisations. He has the ability to enable multicultural teams to produce long-term sustainable developments as well as to develop and implement business strategies that have propelled companies to market leadership positions. He is a sought-after consultant in various sectors ranging from medicine to business and law to technology.
Online profiles: LinkedIn, Youtube
Prof Susan McKenney
Member: Extraordinary professor
Specialisation field: Educational design (research) | Teacher development | Curriculum design | ICT use.
About: Prof Susan McKenney is a researcher, educator, consultant and designer based at the University of Twente, Netherlands. She is especially interested in exploring and supporting the interplay between curriculum development and teacher professional development. This includes the supportive role of technology in curriculum and teacher development, as well as particular attention to these issues in science education, citizenship development, and early childhood literacy. This interest and research experience are why she is an extraordinary professor within the Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovative Training in South Africa in F-EMS. She is committed to exploring how educational research can serve the development of scientific understanding while also developing solutions to real problems in educational practice. Since educational design research lends itself to these dual aims, she works on developing and explicating ways to conduct design research. Much of her work has been carried out in collaboration with organisations in developing countries, but I also enjoy research and consultancy in the Netherlands, the USA and Europe. For current engagements, announcements and comprehensive listings of scientific work, please visit http://www.EducationalDesignResearch.org.
Online profiles: ORCiD, Google scholar, LinkedIn, Utwente