Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas is one of our co-patrons. He served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) from 2014 to 2021. During that period, he was also Chairman of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission (CNMC) which was established to facilitate implementation of the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Cameroon-Nigeria boundary dispute. He has extensive experience from a long and distinguished career in governmental and international service. Read more

Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi is the Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela University, Chairman of the Thabo Mbeki Board of Trustees and former Chair of the Advisory Council of the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA); Chair of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) a subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); Lead Independent Director and Board member of Exxaro; Non Executive Board member of Standard bank Group and Standard Bank South Africa; Currently Chairman of the Tiger Brands Board and Group.

Geraldine previously served as Special Envoy on Gender of the African Development Bank; former Director of Global Democratic Governance Practice of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Geraldine served in the Executive and Cabinet of South Africa first as Deputy Minister and later as Minister for Welfare and Population Development in South Africa’s first democratic government in 1996. Read more>>