2025 Contributors
Prof. Anita Bosch
Paper 1: Gender parity on boards — Save the date: somewhere in 2165
Anita holds the Stellenbosch Business School Research Chair dedicated to the study of women at work. She has a PhD from the School of Management of the University of Southampton (UK) and is a Professor at the Business School, where she teaches in the organisational behaviour and leadership tracks. She is a non-executive director of the National Business Initiative, a voluntary coalition working towards sustainable growth and development in South Africa. She is the editor of the annual Women’s Report, and has published numerous public reports, articles, and book chapters on diversity and women’s issues. Anita regularly engages in public forums in print, online, and broadcast media.
Prof. Mari Teigen
Video 1: Progress in women’s board representation: A Norwegian perspective
Professor Mari Teigen is head of the Centre for Research on Gender Equality (CORE), with her research focused on change and stability in gender relations through analyses of gender equity policies, social elites, and gender segregation in the labour market in both business and academia. Mari is also co-editor and member of the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Working-life Studies and Comparative Social Research, and serves on the board of the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (Oslo Metropolitan University). She is also a member of the European Research Area Action 5 Subgroup and the NÅHST committee.
Prof. Nadia Mans-Kemp
Video 2: Quotas, targets, over-boarding, and femwashing — the South African Gordian knot
Nadia Mans-Kemp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Management at Stellenbosch University. Her research centres on various corporate sustainability considerations, notably board gender diversity, director pay, and sustainable development. She has published in several esteemed journals and contributed to various books. Nadia serves on an internationalisation working group and institutional advisory committee on internationalisation to enhance teaching and research collaboration across countries and continents. She has guest-lectured at several international universities. Nadia strongly believes that sound corporate governance plays a vital role in ensuring sustainable value-creation to the benefit of diverse stakeholders.
Prof. Suzette Viviers
Video 2: Quotas, targets, over-boarding, and femwashing — the South African Gordian knot
Suzette Viviers is a Professor in the Department of Business Management at Stellenbosch University. Her research interests centre on various aspects of corporate governance and responsible investment. She has published widely on shareholder activism and impact investing, both locally and internationally. Of late, she has also conducted research on broad-based black economic empowerment. Viviers chaired the Financial Management focal area in the Department from 2021 to 2024, and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in this field. She served as member of Stellenbosch University’s Research Ethics Committee and as trustee of the institution’s pension fund for a number of years.
Dr Anthony Miller
Video 3: Sustainable boards: Who defines a ‘good’ board member?
Dr Anthony Miller, Chief Co-ordinator of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative since 2009 and the focal point for responsible investment in the Investment and Enterprise Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), is a specialist in sustainable finance, corporate sustainability, and corporate governance. The SSE initiative, named one of the “world’s best sustainability ideas” by Forbes magazine in 2011, was endorsed by the UN Secretary General in 2019. Anthony is a regular contributor to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report and World Investment Forum, and serves as guest lecturer at Cambridge University’s Centre for Development Studies.
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