Kiri Bird & Francis Petersen

 
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Kiri Bird

Kiri Bird is a creative and impact-oriented strategist and organizational leader. She works with teams committed to social impact to develop and launch innovative projects, policy and programming in service of systems change. She is passionate about leadership and capacity building and brings an entrepreneurial approach, equity and justice lens, and accountability to colleagues, partners, and communities.

Francis Petersen

Prof Francis William Petersen is the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State since 1 April 2017.  He has formerly been Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town; Dean: Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town; Executive Head: Strategy at Anglo American Platinum; Executive Vice-President: Research and Development at Mintek; and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Cape Technikon (now the Cape Peninsula University of Technology).  He obtained the degrees BEng (Chem), MEng (Metal), and PhD (Eng) at Stellenbosch University, and completed a short course on Financial Skills for Executive Management with IIR Training.  He is a recipient of the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and Cape Technikon Researcher of the Year Awards.