Business, education and public-purpose leadership.
Professor Bonang Mohale is the Chancellor of the University of the Free State, former President of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), and Professor of Practice in the Johannesburg Business School in the Faculty of Business and Economics.
His post-graduate business education includes executive study at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia; ITO University in Madrid, Spain; the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland; and Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
He is chairman of four companies, including The Bidvest Group Limited and ArcelorMittal, as well as Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Africa and SBV Services. He has also been appointed Sherpa of the Values 20 (V20), a global community of values-driven experts and practitioners engaging with the Group of Twenty on value-based, human-centred policy proposals.
In 2022, he was asked to convene, moderate and chair the Eskom Electricity Crisis Roundtables, focused on partnering to address South Africa's generation capacity shortfall and structural constraints in the electricity sector.
Professor Mohale has been conferred three consecutive three-year terms as Honorary Professor in Marketing Management by the University of Pretoria, where he serves on the Advisory Council. He is a member of the Community of Chairpersons of the World Economic Forum and the best-selling author of Lift As You Rise, Behold The Turtle and Coming In From The Cold.