Belongs to these categories:
Keynote Topics
Videos
Dr. Marius Oosthuizen has an unusually broad field of expertise as a futurist, academic, consultant and facilitator. Having travelled to over 40 countries worldwide and with dual masters degrees in strategic foresight and social and political ethics, as well as a PhD in leadership, Dr. Marius Oosthuizen is uniquely placed to address executives in government, business and civil society.
He holds the position of director, scenarios at the World Energy Council (WEC) and director for learning at the School of International Futures (SOIF), both in London. As an adjunct faculty member of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) he teaches the annual Mastering Strategic Foresight elective on the executive MBA.
His role with the WEC has taken him to the Middle East and Europe to facilitate high-level energy transition policy dialogues, while his role with SOIF has taken him to the Americas and Asia to facilitate conferences on the future of governance and global political economy, as well as to train over 30 UN country offices in the use of foresight and scenario planning.
Dr. Marius Oosthuizen has deep expertise in long-term trends, threats and opportunities facing South Africa and the African context, and has collaborated with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) to develop scenarios on the future of the continent.
His consulting, speaking and facilitation work has included executive sessions with leading banks and insurers, agricultural sector leaders, manufacturers, city-, provincial and national governments, state-owned enterprises as well as activist and NGO networks.
As a speaker Dr. Marius Oosthuizen has the unique ability to blend political and economic analysis, with social and cultural nuances at both local and international level. He is often invited to help leaders break out of old paradigms and strategies to develop new and game changing perspectives for the future of their organisation or network.
In 2022 he addressed audiences in Santa Fe, USA, Tangiers, Morocco, Sharm El Shaikh, Egypt during COP27 and Incheon, South Korea, as well as various African cities.
Contact Us at WeSpeak Global and follow us on Facebook
Author Books | Magazine Covers
Ronak Gopaldas is a political economist, “pracademic”, writer and speaker. His work focuses on the intersection of politics, economics, technology and business in Africa. He is currently a Director at Signal Risk, a fellow at GIBS and the co-founder of Mindflux Training. He was previously the Head of Country Risk at Rand Merchant Bank, where […]
Dr. Miriam Altman is recognised as a leading economist, strategist, thought leader and a passionate communicator. She has extensive proven experience in charting uncertainty and achieving great things in difficult circumstances. She speaks on the future of the South African economy, why South Africa needs a “China Strategy” and more broadly on economic strategy in […]
Nhlanhla Nene served as the Minister of Finance of South Africa under President Jacob Zuma from 25 May 2014 until his controversial removal on 9 December 2015, and under President Cyril Ramaphosa from 27 February 2018 until his resignation on 9 October 2018 He had been a Member of Parliament since 1999. He was appointed […]
Daniel Silke is recognized as one of South Africa’s leading political economy analysts, futurists and most passionate keynote speakers. His success lies in blending both economic and political trends in highly accessible yet insightful presentations. As Director of the Political Futures Consultancy based in Cape Town, Silke serves a host of major global blue-chip companies with outstanding keynotes and […]
Mandla Isaacs is a public speaker, and facilitator. He is Managing Director of Zehuti Advisory, a communications and strategy firm. His main areas of expertise and interest are: political economy, business strategy/trends, South African and African development, international relations, public policy/administration and politics. His career has spanned management consulting, including with McKinsey – where he […]
Dr Roelof Botha is currently Joint Managing Director of GOPA Group SA, a multi-disciplinary research company that specialises in development facilitation. He has been an economic adviser to PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the past 17 years and is an experienced presenter & sought after consultant. In 2005, he received the Sake-24/ABSA award for Economist of the Year, […]
Guy Lundy is a Principal in the Johannesburg office of global executive search firm Odgers Berndtson and a Director on the Boards of several organisations. Until recently Guy was the CEO of Accelerate Cape Town, a business think-tank and stakeholder grouping representing 50 of the biggest companies in South Africa. He has 15 years of […]
Dr Martyn Davies is the Managing Director of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte Africa. He also leads the Africa firm’s China and Japan Services Group. Over his career, he has been an advisor to a large array of multinational firms on their market entry & engagement strategies in Africa. He has also conducted a […]
These remain the property of its owner and are not affiliated with or endorsed by WeSpeak Global.
We are actively working to have our profiles current with Keynote Speech titles, and Summaries.
Some Speakers do not have a set title or summary for their topic lists. Instead they customize for each. Other speakers only do moderated conversations.
If you do not see content here, please contact us.
We also have ample information off line that we can share as some do not want to have visible profiles and as such these are hidden pages.
Or in the event we do not have the information, we can contact the speaker to provide and share.
Our Mission
© All rights reserved 2024. Created using VOXEL THEME
1902 Wright Place, Carlsbad, CA, 92008
