Prof Thomas Mogale

 Director and Head of School

Dr Manamela J Matshabaphala

 Academic Director

Qualifications:

PhD (Pittsburg), MSc (London), BA Hons (Unin)

Area of Specialisation:

• Development, Politics and Policy
• Intergovernmental Relations and Local Governance in SA
• Globalisation, Regions and Local Economic Development
• Micro enterprise, micro lending and rural livelihoods
• Contemporary Agricultural Policy and Rural Developmen

Qualifications:

BA (Hons), MA (Unin); D.Litt et Phil (UNISA); UED

Area of Specialisation:

• Leadership
• Strategy
• Project Management
• Ethics

Prof Anne McLennan

 Director: Research Hub

Assistant Dean: Research

Dr Horátio Zandamela

 Senior Lecturer

Degree Convenor - PhD & MM-D

Qualifications:

PhD (Politics), University of Liverpool, M.E.d (Wits), BA Hons (Wits)

Area of Specialisation:

• Governance, service delivery and equity in Africa
• The challenges of building public administration capacity in developing contexts
• Education management and change, particularly the interface between governance relationships and management practice

Qualifications:

PhD (Wits), MM (Wits), Hons (Eduardo Mondlane)

Area of Specialisation:

• Rural Development
• Local economic development
• Micro-credit & small business development
• Rural & urban water
• Gender equity
• Natural disaster management
• Electoral monitoring & development training

Prof Susan Booysen

 Professor

Degree Convenor - MM PP

Prof Anthoni Van Nieuwkerk

 Associate Professor

Director - Centre for Defense and Security Management

Qualifications:

Dlitt et. Phil (UJ), MA Pol (UJ)

Area of Specialisation:

• Policy
• Politics
• Power

Qualifications:

PhD (Wits), MA (UJ), BA Hon (UJ)

Area of Specialisation:

• International relations
• Foreign policy analysis
• Peace& security issues in Sothern Africa
• South African foreign policy

Prof Gavin Cawthra

 Professor

Degree Convenor: Defense and Security Management

Dikgang Motsepe

 Senior Lecturer

Degree Convenor: MM-PDM

Qualifications:

PhD (Kings), BA Hons (Natal)

Area of Specialisation:

• Defense
• Security
• Southern Africa
• Policy Processes and Management
• Civil society
• Governance

Qualifications:

MA Dev Fin (Stell), BCom Hons (UCT), BCom (UCT)

Area of Specialisation:

• Economics
• Public Finance

Lynn Hewlett

 Senior Lecturer

Koffi Kouakou

 Senior Lecturer

Qualifications:

MA Ed (London), Dip TEFLA (UCLES), BA (Wits)

Area of Specialisation:

• Higher education policy & practices
• Curriculum development
• Capacity building & development
• Adult education
• Literacy and language studies

QUALIFICATIONS

MSc, Communications Sciences (Ball State), MA, Natural Resources (Ball State)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH

 Teaching:

• Scenario Planning, Government Communications

 Research Interests:

• Information communications
• Strategic communications
• Environmental information systems
• Futures studies
• Media sociology

SUPERVISION

• Strategic communications
• Government Communications
• Media
• Scenario Planning
• Futures Studies
• Foresight Studies 

Dr Michael Muller

 Part-time Senior Lecturer

Stephen Porter

 
Lecturer

Qualifications:

PhD (UNISA), MSc Stats (Wits), MSc Comp Sc (Wits)

Area of Specialisation:

• Statistical models of choice & prefference
• Computer interfaces incorporating user models
• Management desision support systems
• Multivariate statistics & psychometrics

Qualifications:

BA Hons (University of Leicester), BSc Hons (UCT),
M-Phil (UCT)

Area of Specialisation:

• Public policy
• Evaluation
• Monitoring & management information planning

Dr Kambidima Wotela

 Lecturer

Thlotse Enoch Motswaledi

 Lecturer

Qualifications:

Ph.D Demography (UCT); MSc. Population and Development Studies (UZ); BA, Demography (UNZA)

Teaching & Research:

• Monitoring & evaluation systems specialist

• Servey design, management, analysis & reporting

• Quantitative Methods including Ethnological Demography

Supervision

• Population and development research

• Monitoring and evaluation

• Ethnography research

• Any research applying quantitative methods 

Recent publications

Wotela, Kambidima. (2011). "Evaluation of a non-sexual peer-education intervention in Zambia,” Wits Programme Evaluation Group http://wpeg.wits.ac.za/main_site/files/20110805/wotela_front_page_draft.pdf

Wotela, Kambidima. (2010). "Deriving ethno-geographical clusters on which to place, evaluate and compare ethnic differentials in Zambia", World Cultures Journal 17(2) http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0j58j1nz

Qualifications:

MBL (UNISA), M.Sc (UJ), M DIP (UJ), BSc (Hons) (MEDUNSA)

Area of Specialisation:

• Project Management
• Strategy & Leadership
• Public - Private Partnership
• Corporate Financing Strategies
• Health Management 

Murray Cairns

 Principal Tutor

Qualifications:

MM (Wits)

TEACHING:

• Research methodology

• HIV/AIDS

• Research writing

Supervision

• HIV/AIDS

Qualifications

MA, Economics (UCT); BA, Economics (UCT)

Teaching and Research

• Social security, economics, financing, management, and administration
• Health economics and financing
• Competition policy
• Health systems
• Health and social security policy and planning
• Public finance and economics

Supervision

• Social security and health
  • Economics
  • Financing
  • Management 

Dr Ivor Sarakinsky

 Senior Lecturer

Prof Pundy Pillay

Professor of Economics and Public Finance

Qualifications:

PhD (Wits); MA in Pol Phil (Wits); BA Hons (Wits); BA (Wits)

Area of Specialisation:

Qualifications

PhD (UCT); MA (UCT); BA Hons (Wits) BA (SA); BSc (KZN)

Teaching and Research

• Economics and Public Finance;
• Economics of Education;
• Economics and Public Policy;

Supervision

• Economics and Public Policy;
• Public Finance;
• Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations;
• Education;
• Poverty and Inequality;
• Labour Markets.

Recent Publications

• Unemployment, vulnerability and economic empowerment: implications for career guidance and counseling for youth in South Africa, with Renette du Toit and Marina Mayer (forthcoming) in International Handbook of Career Guidance
• Student Financing in the Developing World: Africa, (forthcoming) in Student Financing of Higher Education: A Comparative Perspective, eds. Donald E Heller and Claire Callender Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa, with N Cloete, P Maassen, T Bailey, and I Bunting, 2011. CHET, Cape Town.
• Linking Higher Education and Economic Development: Implications for Africa from Three Successful Systems, 2010, Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET), Cape Town.
• Financing Higher Education in East and Southern Africa: Nine Country Studies, Editor, June 2010, Ford Foundation and the Centre for Higher Education Transformation, Cape Town.
• Financing Higher Education for Access and Equity: Challenges and Lessons from East and Southern Africa, in Financing Higher Education for Access and Equity, editor Jane Knight, Sense Publishers. 2009