Directorships and Boards

Current

Trustee, Discovery Health Medical Scheme Board (2022 - )
Member of the Board of Directors of CORC (Community Organisation Resources Centre, an NGO that supports community-based organizations by facilitating internal processes and external engagements with formal actors like the government departments and funders, concerned particularly with informal housing, micro-credit organisations, homelessness) (2012- )

Past

Director, Mauerbuerger Foundation, (2008-2018)
Universities South Africa (USAf – organisation representing all SA public universities): member of Board 2008-2018; Vice-chairperson 2012- 2015; Chair Universities Funding Strategy Group (July 2017 – June 2018); Member of USAf Executive (2012-2015; 2017 - 2018);
Worldwide Universities Network (comprising 20 research universities from around the world covering all continents, that promotes collaborative research between network members): Chairperson of the Board 2014 –2016; Vice Chairperson 2013-2014 and 2016-2017
Member of the Council (governing body) of the University of Ghana, Legon (2011 - 2018)
Co-founder and first chair of African Research Universities Alliance – created to strengthen links between research universities in Africa (formally launched in Senegal in March 2015 - 2018)
Member of the Global Council of Hanban, the Headquarters of the Confucius Institutes (2014-2018): I was one of the ten University presidents from around the world who constitute the external members of the Global Council that meets in China twice a year.
Director, Wits Health Consortium (2000-2006)
Director, Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (2002-2007)
Director, Thusano School of Public Health (2000-2004)
Director, Health e-News (NGO promoting mass media coverage of health related news) (2000-2008)
Director, Aurum Institute for Health Research (Not-for-profit AIDS/TB research organisation) (2006-2008)
Director, then Advisory Board Member, CARE (Community Aids Response NGO) (early 1990s)