Cape Town
Thursday, 18 July 2024
Time
17:30 for 18:00–19:30
Contact
Alumni Events
We have pleasure in inviting you to our third instalment of a conversation on the importance of impactful, inclusive leadership in the workplace. Four dynamic UCT alumni who are passionate about accelerating executive leadership, will share what they have learned on their respective journeys in the finance, retail, ICT and non-profit sectors. This will be a fully interactive audience experience.
Date: Thursday, 18 July 2024
Time: 17:30 for 18:00–19:30
Venue: WomHub, Foyer A, Sovereign Quay, 34 Somerset Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8001
RSVP: by Monday, 15 July 2024 (for catering)
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Naadiya Moosajee is a serial entrepreneur by passion and a civil engineer by training. She is a co-founder of WomHub, a boutique incubator for female led innovation in STEM where she leads the innovation team. She co-founded WomEng a global social enterprise developing women and girls for the engineering and tech industry including a commitment at the UN in partnership with UNESCO to empower 1 million girls through STEM education. Naadiya serves on a number of local and global boards, is an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow and among other accolades, was named “Top 20 Young Power Women in Africa” by Forbes Magazine. She is a Co-Chair for the Saudi Arabia B20 Task Force on the Future of Work and Education as well as the B20 Italy Special taskforce on women. She is also the current UCT President of Convocation. |
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Advaita Naidoo is the Africa Managing Director for Jack Hammer Global, a female-founded and -led executive search firm, dual headquartered in Cape Town and Los Angeles. While completing her Masters in Research Psychology, she worked in academia, before transitioning to the corporate world. She has lived on four continents and covered a quarter of the globe in her travels, allowing her to apply a global lens to her work. |
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Tracey Chambers is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has held various positions in management consulting, systems implementation and supply chain projects over a career spanning 25 years. Tracey spent 9 years at Woolworths, where she served as Head of Finance for four years. In 2010, she co-founded Taking Care of Business (Previously known as The Clothing Bank), a social enterprise aimed at empowering unemployed mothers to start their own retail businesses. This inspired the creation of GROW Educare Centres in 2014, where Tracey serves as the CEO. She is also a founding director of The Greenlight Movement. Her numerous awards and accolades include: the Western Cape Premier Business Award for Business of the Year and Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017, the Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2016, and the Western Cape Business Women of the Year in 2015. Her most recent award (received in 2022) was the International Alliance for Women, World of Difference award. She is also an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. |
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Nazmeera Moola is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Ninety One (previously known as Investec Asset Management). In this role, she oversees firm-wide initiatives, including commercial imperatives, investment integration, and our inhabit and advocacy work. Prior to this she was Head of SA Investments, where she worked across both public and private strategies in Africa. Before that, she was co-Head of SA & Africa Fixed Income. Nazmeera has covered the macro-economy in South Africa and other emerging markets since 2000. She is passionate about making financial markets work to support development. Her remit has included the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, which provides debt financing for infrastructure projects across Africa. Nazmeera joined Ninety One in 2013 from Macquarie First South where she was Head of Macro Strategy. She began her career as an economist at Merrill Lynch in South Africa and in London. |
This event forms part of a UCT alumni and friends, global thought-leadership series designed to facilitate necessary conversations about the role inclusive leadership can play in shifting organisational culture. The invitation is open to all UCT alumni and friends of the University of Cape Town. Make sure you do not miss this opportunity to meet four inspirational UCT women, to learn something new as well as to reconnect with other fellow alumni.