First South African MD of World Bank
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Dr. Mamphela Ramphele is reportedly the first South African managing director of the World Bank. She allegedly made a name for herself after obtaining a medical degree in 1972 during the height of Apartheid, when she was also an anti-Apartheid activist and has been voted one of the top 100 Great South African, receiving the President’s national Lifetime Achievement Award. During the struggle years she also excelled into becoming an academic and businesswoman.
In South Africa she was appointed to the board of several companies. She has 18 honorary degrees and numerous awards. Ramphele has reportedly also been appointed trustee of the new York-based Rockerfeller Foundation. Just recently she was invited as a key-note speaker to The Discovery Investment Leadership Summit, hosted in the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Here she will be joined by other business sages and renowned authors including Rudy Giuliani, Adrian Gore, Stephen Dubner, Nassim Taleb and Johann Rupert.
