Speakers
*Updated: June 24, 2008
| Name | Designation |
| Honorable Ebrahim Rasool | Premier Western Cape Provincial Government |
| Larry D. Bailey, WG’76
|
President LDB Consulting, Inc Washington, D.C. |
| Roger Baxter | Chief Economist Economic Advisory Unit Chamber of Mines of South Africa |
| Bronwyn Bayvel |
Corporate Finance Director Dubai World Africa Services (Pty) Ltd Cape Town |
| Manu Chandaria | Chairman Comcraft Group Nairobi |
| Dabing Chen | Chairman Chenshia Industries Ltd. Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Christian F. Eidem, W’94 | Chairman & Founder Asante Oil East & Southern Africa |
| Andrew Golding | Chief Executive Pam Golding Property Group |
| Anthony Hamilton Russell, WG'90 |
Proprietor Hamilton Russell Vineyards Founder owner Ashbourne Founder owner Southern Right Cellars |
| Nikolaus Hans Heinrich Czypionka | Economic and Strategy Consultant Chief Executive Economic Dynamics |
| Dawn Hines, WG'91 | Co-founder & Partner Aventura Investment Partners |
| Gareth Huckle
|
Senior Vice President Business Development and Strategy SUN Mining |
| Bridgette John | Coordinator, Botswana Education Hub International University of Science and Technology |
| Eric Kacou, WG'04 | Managing Director OTF Group |
| Malose Kekana | Chief Executive Officer Umsobomvu Youth Fund Johannesburg |
| Dionne Kerr | Founder & Chief Executive Officer Siyakha Consulting |
| George Shimane Khunou | Managing Director Royal Bafokeng Sports |
| John W. Lane | Chief Executive World Wide Sports |
| Stephen Lussier | Managing Director External and Corporate De Beers |
| Stafford Masie | Chief Executive Officer Google South Africa Johannesburg |
| Leigh Meinert | Co-Founder & Managing Director Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA) Cape Town |
| Nkosana Moyo | Partner Actis London |
| Qondisa Ngwenya | President, Africa Octagon Worldwide Johannesburg |
| David Noko | Managing Director De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) |
| Richard Okello | Principal Makena Capital Management |
| Thomas N. Papenfus | Shell South Africa Energy (Pty) Limited Bryanston |
| Stephen Priestly WG’93 | Managing Director JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. Sandton |
| Malcolmn D. Pryor Sr., WG'72 | President & Chief Executive Officer Southern African Enterprise Development Fund |
| Carmel Schrire | Professor Department of Anthropology Rutgers University |
| Kgomotso Selokane | Independent Consultant |
| John J. Teeling, WG'69 | Executive Chairman African Diamonds Dublin |
| Wayne van der Vent | Head Property Investments |
| Eugene Wade, WG'99
|
Chairman, CEO & Co-founder Platform Learning |
| Pamela Watson | Managing Director, Strategy Safari Limited Managing Director, Afrikoko Papers Limited Australian Honorary Consul, Lagos, Nigeria |
| J. Eric Wright, WG’92 | Founder & Chief Executive Officer Africa Venture Partners |
Wharton School Faculty and Staff
| Name | Designation |
| Thomas S. Robertson | Dean The Wharton School |
| Raphael (Raffi) Amit | Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship;
Professor of Management;
Academic Director, The Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs; Academic Director, The Wharton Global Family Alliance |
| Anjani Jain | Vice Dean and Director, Wharton Graduate Division Adjunct Professor of Operations and Information Management |
| George Day | Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor, Professor of Marketing; Co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation |
| Richard J. Herring | Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking; Professor of Finance; Co-Director, Wharton Financial Institutions Center |
| Ian C. MacMillan | Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| David J. Reibstein
|
William Stewart Woodside Professor; Professor of Marketing |
| Kenneth L. Shropshire | David W. Hauck Professor, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Director, Wharton Sports Business Initiative |
| Jeremy J. Siegel | The Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance |
| James D. Thompson | Associate Director of Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs; Director of Societal Wealth Program |












