Programme Staff

Programme Staff

Email: Paul

Paul is a founding Director of the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship and currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer. He has worked in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa for the past 13 years as a researcher, consultant, facilitator and as an employee on a platinum mine. He has a Masters Degree in Social Anthropology from Sussex University (UK) where he specialised on multinational mining companies and corporate social responsibility. Paul is a member of the Global Reporting Initiative Stakeholder Council and is on the AccountAbility (AA1000) Council. He has written extensively on the subject of corporate – community relations and participated in conferences and projects around the world with the aim of ensuring an African perspective on corporate responsibility is considered in both policy and practice.

Sean de Cleene, Director of Strategy

Email: Sean

Sean is a founding director of AICC. Sean's main work is in the area of responsible competitiveness as well as the strategy implications and design for companies looking to mainstream corporate citizenship in line with core business practice. In this capacity he has undertaken strategy reviews for a variety of companies and given a number of executive briefings to company boards and senior management teams. Sean is also Director of the UK based Centre for Advancement of Sustainable Development Partnerships. He has also been elected co-chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative Africa Taskforce and was an original member of the FTSE/JSE SRI Index Advisory Committee. He sits on the board of several not for profit and for profit organisations who specialise in the area of sustainability and business. Sean has written extensively for a variety of publications on both corporate citizenship and responsible competitiveness.

Mokhethi Moshoeshoe, Non-Executive Director

Email: Mokhethi

Mokhethi is a founder and non-executive Director of African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC), Chairman of Sustainability Research and Intelligence, Co-founder and chairman of Giving and Sharing Foundation. He has co-authored the groundbreaking report and corporate toolkit on HIV/AIDS – Affected children and the corporate sector in South Africa, for Save the Children Fund (UK). He is also a co-author of Guidelines for Corporate Strategic Planning Framework for Community Development for the International Council on Mining and Minerals. Mokhethi serves on a number of governing boards and strategic advisory bodies including: the governing boards of PetroSA Development Trust, Desmond Tutu Education Trust, PLANACT and Boys Towns. He is a member of the USAID regional advisory panel for SADC and also a member of Intergovernmental Working Group of experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting

Nkosithabile Ndlovu, Programme Manager

Email: Nkosi

Nkosithabile holds a Master of Arts Tourism and development programme obtained at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he did a research project on the role of ecotourism in rural development, looking at community participation and empowerment. He also holds a Bachelor of Education degree (specializing in Geography) obtained at "Enrique Jose Varona" Higher Institute of Pedagogy, in Cuba. Nkosithabile has been an integral member of the AICC team that coordinates activities of the South African Global Compact and the Corporate Social Responsibility framework for the Angolan oil sector run by the World Bank. In addition, he has worked on a number of research projects, including research on the role of civil society and business in the NEPAD initiative. Prior to joining AICC, Nkosithabile worked on a community consultation process and awareness campaign for the Constitution Hill Project, one of Gauteng Provincial Government's development initiatives.

Tagbo Agbazue, Project Coordinator

Email: Tagbo

Tagbo is a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He also holds a Masters degree in the field of Gender Studies from the University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. As a lawyer, Tagbo specialises in corporate governance in addition to broader sustainability issues pertaining to public and private sector corporations in Africa. Tagbo has worked as a legal practitioner for Charles Ogbo & Associates in Nigeria and has lectured law at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria. Tagbo is a consultant for Edward Nathan & Friedland, where his endeavours include corporate governance advisory services to major public and private sector corporations in Africa. Also, in conjunction with Philip Armstrong (Chair: AICC, Principal Convenor & Editor of the King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa, and Member: Governing Board of the International Corporate Governance Network), Tagbo is an expert resource on corporate governance to the NEPAD secretariat. Currently, Tagbo is a Programme Manager for AICC, developing and formalising the Africa Corporate Sustainability Forum.

Daisy Kambalame, Projects Coordinator and Researcher

Email: Daisy

She has a Master of Science degree in Business Economics from Reading University in the UK and has been working in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility since 2000. She has worked extensively on implementing CSR principles mostly within the tea sector in Malawi. She was one of the main facilitators working with the UNDP to launch the Global Compact Network for Malawi and she is currently responsible for the coordination of this network, which has initiated a number of multi-sector partnership programs aimed at eliminating corruption and creating opportunities in the agricultural sector. Daisy is also an expert member of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) working group for the formulation of a guidance document on Social Responsibility, with an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and raising awareness within Africa. Prior to joining AICC, Daisy worked as a business consultant, with a focus on CSR and social audits, as well as a production planner and statistician.

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