Prof Francis Wilson - Chairman of the Audit & Management Committee

Professor Francis Wilson has taught for over 30 years in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town where he founded and for many years directed the Southern African Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru). Since 2001 he has been the Director of Data First Resource Unit (for Information Research and Scientific Training) in the Centre for Social Science Research. He is the author of a number of books, chapters, and articles including Labour in the South African Gold Mines (Cambridge, 1972) and, with Mamphela Ramphele, Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge (Cape Town & New York, 1989). He is co-editor of Poverty Reduction: What Role for the State in Today's Globalised Economy? (London, 2001)