Prof Charl de Villiers from the Department of Accounting is also a professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is internationally known for his Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting research and expertise. Prof De Villiers is also an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape, in South Africa; and Universiti Teknologi Mara, in Malaysia.

He has over 400 research-based publications and presentations, including more than 100 articles in refereed journals, and two Routledge-published edited books, namely Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting (2018), and The Routledge Handbook of Integrated Reporting (2020). As an indication of impact, his research has been cited more than 10,000 times and his h-index is 50, i.e. 50 of his research publications have been cited at least 50 times. A Stanford University study ranks Prof De Villiers 49th among the 4,377 accounting academics globally, based on citations during 2021, also placing him in the top 2% of scientists worldwide. In 2022, he was inducted into the AAAJ/APIRA Hall of Fame, which has a small and exclusive membership (currently 26), for outstanding contributions to the interdisciplinary accounting research community.

Prof Franzsen is the director of the African Tax Institute and also occupies the South African Research Chair in Tax Policy and Governance. After obtaining the BLC and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria in 1981 and 1983 respectively, he obtained the LLD degree in tax law from Stellenbosch University in 1990. In 2013 he also obtained a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Pretoria.

He has authored or co-authored many accredited or peer-reviewed papers and more than 40 scholarly book chapters. He is the co-editor of 6 international scholarly books, including Property Tax in Africa – Status, Challenges and Prospects (2017) and Property Tax in Asia – Policy and Principles (2022), published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

He specializes in land and property taxation and has acted as a policy advisor for various entities (including the IMF and World Bank) in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, the

Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. More than 20 doctoral and 80 master’s students have completed their studies under his supervision or co-supervision. He regularly teaches at Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). He has acted as an instructor for short courses or workshops on behalf of various entities, including the IMF, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and International Property Tax Institute.

In 2022, he received an A2 rating from the NRF.

Prof John Henry Hall is a full professor and currently the head of the Department of Financial Management.  His research focus areas include shareholder value creation, capital budgeting and aspects of development economics. He received his first NRF rating (C3) in 2016 and was re-rated as a C2 researcher with effect from 2022.

Prof Hall was recognised as the best senior researcher in the Financial Sciences in the EMS Faculty for a number of years. He has published more than 70 journal articles (some of which has received best paper awards) in scholarly refereed journals. He has a Google Scholar h-index of 26, more than 2100 citations (January 2023) and has presented research papers at a number of conferences both locally and internationally. Prof Hall has successfully supervised more than 30 Masters and PhD students.

Prof Yolanda Jordaan is a full professor and Head of the Department of Marketing Management, and currently holds a C2 rating from the National Research Foundation. Her research focus is on consumer behaviour, more specifically consumer decision-making. This includes decision-making in traditional and new media contexts, as well as in terms of consumer information privacy.

Technological developments partly shifted her research focus to the online environment. Within this broad subject area, her focus is on:

1) consumer decision-making and behaviour with regard to online consumer-information privacy and related privacy-protective behaviours;

2) consumer decision-making and behaviour in the mobile environment; and

3) consumer involvement in decision-making styles and advertising.

Much of her research work incorporates the uniqueness of the South African market. As such, part of her earlier research work focused on understanding students’ decision-

making processes when it comes to university selection. Her research also incorporates comparisons between South African consumers and consumers in other countries. To this end, a research fellowship at the University of Wollongong in Australia allowed her to conduct research on information privacy in the Australian environment, ultimately leading to a comparison of consumer-information privacy concerns and behaviour between South Africa, Australia and the USA.

She has published several journal articles on consumer-information privacy and protective behaviour of consumers. Technological developments have sparked interest on privacy within the Facebook and mobile marketing contexts, about which she has published some articles.

Prof Koch is Professor of Economics, Managing Editor of the South African Journal of Economics and serves on both the Econometric Society Committee for the African Region and the EMS Faculty’s Postgraduate Committee. He was the Head of the Department of Economics and has supported Economic Research Southern Africa in its efforts to improve the quality and impact of local research.

He has in excess of 50 peer-reviewed publications, and has received grant funding from numerous agencies in Africa and Europe. His research falls within applied microeconomics primarily focusing on household decisions, including healthcare-seeking and health-affecting behaviours, as well as health inequality, energy consumption and energy poverty, and equivalence scales. 

Prof Koch holds a C2 rating from the NRF.

Prof Eileen Koekemoer is an associate professor in the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and is registered as an Industrial Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). She serves on the postgraduate committee of the Department and is committed to quality teaching and research. Her areas of research include work−life interaction, career success and the wellbeing of employees. Over the past five years she has published 17 journal articles and received substantial NRF Thuthuka grant funding for her projects.  She is involved in various research projects that investigate the interaction between employees’ work and family life and how it influences their career success and/or wellbeing. She is a section editor of the renowned South African Journal of Industrial Psychology.

Prof Maree’s research has contributed to the field of integrated marketing communications (IMC) in the form of several publications in local and international peer-reviewed journals, and numerous conference papers in South Africa and internationally. Her research work has been recognised by the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences in the form of the Best Junior Researcher Award for Management Sciences in 2016. Prof Maree’s work successfully adds a voice to the extant marketing communications literature on the African continent as well as globally.

She holds a C3 rating from the NRF.

Prof Annet Wanyana Oguttu is a professor of tax law in the Department of Taxation and the African Tax Institute in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. She holds a doctorate in tax law. Her field of specialization is international tax law; and in which she has published many articles in various internationally accredited journals.

She is the author of the ground-breaking book “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: A Blueprint for Africa’s Response” (IBFD, 2021); the seminal book “International Tax Law: Offshore Tax Avoidance in South Africa” (Juta, 2015); co-author of “Tax Law: An Introduction” (Juta, 2020) and has written several book chapters in other tax text books.

She is a Research Fellow of: The Centre for Studies in African Taxation (CSAT) housed at the International Bureau for fiscal Documentation (IBFD); the Abe Green Baum Research Fellowship of the School of Taxation and Business Law at the University of New South Wales; and the University of Michigan’s Presidential Scholars Fellowship.

Prof Oguttu is a member of: the UN High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (FACTI Panel); the Davis Tax Committee (DTC) which was appointed by South Africa’s Minister of Finance to assess South Africa’s tax policy framework; and she has served as Commissioner of the South African Law

Reform Commission. She has written commissioned reports on various international tax issues for national and international bodies such as: South Africa’s National Treasury; SARS; South African Reserve Bank; UN/ECA; UN/DESA and IFA.

She has presented keynote addresses at conferences organised by international bodies such as the OECD; ATAF; ICRIT; SAIT; IBFD; ICTD; Institute of Austrian and International Tax Law - Vienna and the London School of Economics. She served as the president of the board of directors of the South African Institute of Tax Professionals (SAIT). She is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the African Tax Research Network (ATRN) which is housed at ATAF. She is also a board member of UP/Gordon Institute of Business Science and the Tax Faculty. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg and the Institute of Austrian and International Tax Law - Vienna.

She holds a C1 rating from the NRF.

His PhD and Masters students focus on relevant issues and problems associated with business distress in particular. Currently there are several students working in this research theme with several reports and publications seeing the light in collaboration with government and the turnaround industry.

As a C2 NRF-rated researcher, he drives a web based business resource at https://www.up.ac.za/business-management/article/2055191/up-business-rescue- to serve the rescue community.

Prof Elmar Venter is a professor in the Department of Accounting. He is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and holds a PhD in accounting from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He serves as a vice-president of the International Association for Accounting Education & Research (IAAER). His research focuses on the consequences of corporate reporting for capital market participants.

Prof Venter holds a C2 rating from the NRF.

Professor Elda du Toit is an associate professor in the Department of Financial Management. She received her DCom degree in Financial Management Sciences from the University of Pretoria. She is registered as an Associate Chartered Management Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant (ACMA/CGMA) with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. She teaches research methodology to the honours and Master’s students in the Department of Financial Management and supervises several students.

Her main research interest is the disclosures companies make available to their stakeholders in terms of both content and quality. She is specifically interested in the value of disclosures on the decision-making processes of stakeholders.

Prof Du Toit has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals and presented a number of research papers at national and international conferences. In 2018, she received the Best Senior Researcher Award in Financial Sciences from the Faculty and in 2022 she was the first runner-up for the reward.

Prof Du Toit has a C3 rating with the NRF.

Prof Adrino Mazenda

Prof Mazenda is an associate professor and represents the School of Public Management and Administration.as member of the Economic Management Sciences (EMS) Ethics Committee. His research focuses on social policy, contributing to global food security, and the poverty debate from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published extensively in this area, with some of his publications presented in ”The Conversation”, a platform for cutting-edge academic research engagement. Moreover, his research has been publicised in the media (television and radio).

Prof. Mazenda has also received several grants for research and travel. In 2021, he received the best EMS Faculty Emerging Researcher award in Management Sciences. He serves as a member of the City of Johannesburg’s migration advisory panel and is involved in various community engagement activities.

He holds a Y2 rating with the NRF.