Dani Venter
Prof. Dani Venter is a former South African diplomat who was Professor Extraordinarius in International Business Relations in the Department of Business Management, of the University of Pretoria, previously at the University of South Africa. Prof. Venter is Chairman of the IBI. Prof. Venter served as a member of the British Steering Committee of the British-South Africa Conference in 1992. He has advised a number of multinationals in the European Union on their investments in South Africa, acted as a consultant to the European Commission, and created new companies and developed turnaround strategies for companies in difficulty in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean. Prof. Venter holds MBA, MCom, PhD and DCom degrees. He is the co-editor and co-author of Regional Integration – Economic Partnership Agreements for Eastern and Southern Africa (2007); Conflict and Governance: Nepad , South Africa and Africa (2005); Nepad and the African Renaissance (2005) The European Union and South Africa (2004) and co-editor and co-author of 11 September: Strategic Implications of the World Trade Centre Attack (2002) . He is also a contributing author to Global Business - Environments and Strategies (3rd ed.) (2007) and the author of South Africa, Sanctions and the Multinationals (1989). Prof. Venter has written numerous articles and presented papers at national and international conferences.
Ernst Neuland
Prof. Ernst Neuland is former Professor of International Business and Strategy in the School of Business Management, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, at the University of South Africa. He was vice-rector of Vista University and visiting professor at the University of Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. He holds MSc, MBA and DBA degrees. He is the co-editor and co-author of Regional Integration – Economic Partnership Agreements for Eastern and Southern Africa (2007); Conflict and Governance: Nepad , South Africa and Africa (2005); Nepad and the African Renaissance (2005) and the European Union and South Africa (2004) and the co-editor and co-author of a number of books including 11 September: Strategic Implications of the World Trade Centre Attack (2002) and Global Business - Environments and Strategies (3rd ed.)(2007). Prof. Neuland has written numerous articles and presented papers at national and international conferences. He was a founding member and first President of the Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists (SAIMS) in 1987, and also a founding member and first chairperson of the Southern Africa Chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB) in 1997.
