UNISA Principal and Vice Chancellor's Africa Intellectual Scholar Series lecture by Prof. Tal Edgars.pdf

Prof Puleng LenkaBula, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa (Unisa), will be hosting the 1st lecture of the Africa Intellectual Scholar series. This year’s lecture will be delivered by his Excellency Prof. Dr. Ambassador Tal Edgars, under the topic “the new frontier – Africa: where do we stand?”

His Excellency Prof. Dr. Ambassador Tal Edgars, Q.C is a global multi- award winning, well known business authority, diplomat and a cutting-edge thinker with an outstanding record in planning, managing and executing highly successful private and public sector initiatives in Africa, Europe, America & Asia. He has an academic, diplomatic and international civil service background with a global inclination and provides quite extensive domestic best practices in Africa, He is Africa’s leading authority and informed voice on knowledge of foreign policy community, Growth and Competitiveness Practice, complex negotiations, strategic foresight, government affairs, entrepreneurship, investment policies, brand strategy and how countries & businesses can be active participants in their own development.

Prof. Dr. Ambassador Tal Edgars is currently the Chairman GBSH Consult Group Worldwide. He is also the Chair of the Master Task Force team in South Africa on Social Development and Social Entrepreneuship.

The Africa Intellectual Scholar Series, Knowledge Systems and Africa Futures Programme, is part of the Principal and Vice Chancellor’s Projects at Unisa. This programme is also part of a series of Academic and Public Lectures, Business/ Academic Roundtables aimed at promoting innovative ideas, debates, discussions and research ingenuity on discourses and processes of envisioning and constructing Africa’s development and its futures. 

The lecture is a continuation of the African Intellectuals Project, Knowledge Systems and Africa Futures Programme, which is part of the Principal and Vice Chancellor’s Projects at Unisa