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THE University of Johannesburg has made two executive appointments.
Professor Alex Broadbent has been appointed executive dean at the faculty of humanities and Professor Morgan Dundu has been appointed vice-dean teaching and learning at the faculty of engineering and the built environment.
Broadbent is an affiliated research fellow in history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge and held various research, teaching and visiting positions at Cambridge, Vienna, Athens and Harvard, before joining UJ as a senior lecturer in 2011. He became associate professor in 2012 and professor this year.
Broadbent holds degrees in philosophy from Cambridge (BA, PhD) and University College London (MPhil) and a graduate diploma in law from BPP University, Manchester.
Dundu has served as the head of the school of civil engineering and the built environment at UJ since 2010.
He holds a BSc (Eng) degree from the University of Zimbabwe, an MSc and a PhD degree in structural engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dundu is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and an editorial board member of the Journal of Steel Construction — Design and Research, among other things. He has taught structural engineering, civil project investigation, civil design and structural dynamics during his career as a lecturer. WILLEM Marais has been appointed group managing executive for Liquid Telecom Group and also joins as the CEO of Liquid Telecom South Africa.
Marais, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the telecoms industry, will be responsible for Liquid Telecom’s global wholesale data business across the service-provider market and will head business operations in South Africa.
Before joining Liquid Telecom Group, Marais held the position of chief commercial officer at Seacom as well as a number of senior positions in the Siemens group. THE Jasco Group has appointed Dave Smith MD of Jasco Renewable Energy.
He has qualifications in electrical engineering and business and more than 20 years of experience in utility power, network development, transmission and telecoms.
Smith holds a degree in electrical engineering from Stellenbosch University and a master’s degree in business leadership from Unisa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership.
He worked in various positions at Eskom for more than 15 years before moving into the telecommunications sphere.