South African Foreign Policy Review: Volume 1

About the contributors

x About the contributors ■ Iqbal Jhazbhay Iqbal Jhazbhay is South Africa’s current ambassador to the State of Eritrea. He was professor at the University of South Africa (Unisa) and was the previous director of the Unisa Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has authored the book Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition; some twentyone academic articles and chapters on Islamic thought, Somaliland and South African foreign policy. He is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Global Dialogue, an International Relations think tank established by former president Nelson Mandela. Professor Jhazbhay serves on the ANC’s NEC Subcommittee of International Relations and its newly-formed International Relations Rapid Response Task Team, and he chairs the ANC’s Sudan Task Team. He previously served on the ANC’s Commission for Religious Affairs. ■ Francis Kornegay Francis Kornegay is a senior research fellow in the Emerging Powers Programme at the Institute for Global Dialogue. He has Master’s degrees in African Studies from Howard University, Washington D.C., and in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Kornegay served two terms in the US Congress as a professional staffer, developing financial sanctions legislation on South Africa. He established the Research and Evaluation Unit for the African Development Foundation, an independent US agency. In South Africa, he served as the country director of the African-American Institute and was involved in electoral support activities. Since then he has focused on South-South cooperation issues, on which he has written and published extensively. He also served as a Public Policy Fellow of the Washington D.C. based at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. ■ Chris Landsberg Professor Chris Landsberg is South African National NRF Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in the Faculty of Humanities, and Senior Associate: School of Leadership at the University of Johannesburg (UJ). He is a former head of Politics at UJ. He was a former Rhodes Scholar at xi ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Oxford, where he obtained his M Phil and D Phil International degrees, alongside a MA International Studies from Rhodes. A former director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg (2002–2007) and former codirector of the Centre for Africa’s International Relations (CAIR) at Wits, he has published widely on South African foreign policy and African diplomacy . His latest single-authored title is The Diplomacy of Transformation: South African Foreign Policy and Statecraft, Macmillan, 2010. ■ Lesley Masters Lesley Masters holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Leicester (UK), with a particular emphasis on foreign policy. She joined the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) as a researcher in 2008 as part of the IGD’s Multilateral Programme. She is currently a senior researcher within the IGD’s foreign policy and diplomacy programme , where her research includes environmental diplomacy, South Africa’s foreign policy, the international politics of climate change, and the governance of natural resources. ■ David Monyae David Monyae is an international expert specialising in Africa and emerging markets including China and Turkey. For a large part of his career he lectured international relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has written widely and is a respected commentator. He advises the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). He writes this chapter in his personal capacity. ■ Nomfundo Ngwenya Nomfundo Xenia Ngwenya is a director in the Global Development Policy Unit within the International Finance and Development Department at the National Treasury. Prior to joining government, she was, since September 2009, the head of the South African Foreign Policy and African Drivers Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs. She previously served in the South African Secret Service and lectured in International and African Politics at the University of South Africa. She holds an MA in International Studies from the University of Stellenbosch, an MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. ■ Gerrit Olivier Gerrit Olivier holds a PhD in International Relations. As professor of Political Science and International Relations, he has taught at the xii ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Universities of Pretoria and Johannesburg. For part of his career he served as a professional diplomat, having been South Africa’s first ambassador to Russia and...