Archbishop Ndungane matriculated from Lovedale High School, Alice, and studied at Kings College in London, obtaining a Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology in Christian Ethics. He holds an honorary doctorate from UCT. He progressed from Deacon to Consecrated Bishop during 1973-1991. Except for a period of three years on Robben Island as a political prisoner, he was involved in numerous assignments, serving on Boards and Commissions all over the world. He represented the Anglican Church at the Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops at the Vatican. He presently leads two organisations dedicated to improving education in SA and eradicating poverty in Africa.

Ms Deborah Budlender (Deputy Chair)

Ms Budlender is a specialist researcher with the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), a non-governmental organisation working in the area of social policy research. She has worked for CASE since 1988. Previous employment includes administrative work for trade unions, and research for the UCT-based Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit at the time of the second Carnegie Enquiry into Poverty. Ms Budlender has been a Member of Council, chosen by the Appointments Committee, since 2004.

Professor David Aschman

David Aschman is Professor of Physics at UCT. He has been a Visiting Scientist at Princeton University, the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Davis, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. At UCT Professor Aschman has served on various library committees, including library, planning and computer users. He was vice-chair of the Editorial Board and deputy chair of the former Academics' Association. He currently serves on the Admissions Task Team and the Director's Council of iThemba LABS. Professor Aschman has been a UCT Council member since 2002.

Dr Abdul Barday

Dr Barday practises as a family physician. He was the first medical ombudsman in South Africa, a position he still holds. He is active in the medical, dental and dispensing family practitioners associations. Dr Barday is a former director of the Road Accident Fund, former chair and currently a member of the Groote Schuur Hospital Board, a trustee of the Groote Schuur Hospital Teaching Trust, a UCT-nominated director and chair of the board of the UCT Private Academic Hospital. He is also a member of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Dr Barday has been a member of the UCT Council since 1999 and served on the Institutional Forum from 1999 to 2003.

Ms Sheila Barsel

Sheila Barsel is a Senior Health Researcher with the National Union Health, Education and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU). She has some 40 years' experience in policy development and implementation, planning, strategic and operational management, monitoring and evaluation, people and human resource management, and administration in the civil society, private and public sectors. This is includes six years as general secretary of the National Students Organisation, 19 years in the retail and manufacturing sectors, and 15 years working in the Western Cape's Department of Health.

Mr Graeme Bloch

Mr Bloch is an education specialist and has been with the Development Bank of Southern Africa since 2005. He is a former member of the SRC Executive. He served as a Ministerial appointee on the Council of the University of Western Cape from 2003 to 2006. He was a member of the Anti-Apartheid Archives Steering Committee, the South African representative on the UN Commission for Social Development, Vice-President of the Union of Democratic University Staff Associations, the Western Cape United Democratic Front Executive. He was a founder member of the Western Cape Detainees' Parents Support Committee; Detention Action Committee, and the National Education Crisis Committee. He also lectured in education at the University of the Western Cape.

Ms Vuyiswa Doo

Vuyiswa Doo is the proprietor of Entabeni Consulting, established in September 1997. The consultancy specialises in Organisational Development, Human Resource (HR) Management and in Policy formulation. She graduated from Essex in Policy Making and Administration, followed by an MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics, management training courses and a City and Guilds Diploma in Computer Applications. Member of Council chosen by the Appointments Committee (2003-2004): appointed by the Minister (2004-2008) and appointed by the Minister again for 2008-2012. Ms Doo is currently serving her second consecutive term as Chair of the University Human Resource Committee.

Mr Justice Ian Farlam

Justice Farlam was a member of the Cape Bar for 25 years and was awarded silk in 1981. While at the Bar, his areas of interest in the law included banking law, shipping law and constitutional law. Justice Farlam has served as a Cape High Court judge, and is now a member of the Supreme Court of Appeal. He has previously served on UCT Council prior to his appointment to judicial office.

Mr Gary Gabriels

Mr Gabriels is a principal technical officer in clinical pharmacology in the Department of Medicine. He has contributed to numerous publications and reports and presentations at conferences. He is a recipient of the Administration Award of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA) in 2002 and an honorary award from Cheryl Roberts Publishing for developing sport during apartheid South Africa. Mr Gabriels is a non-executive director of the Wethu Investment Group, and Western Cape Sport Academy. He is president of the Western Province Volleyball Union. He was manager of the South African Men's Volleyball Team - Universiade Beijing.

Mr Jeremy Gauntlett SC

Mr Gauntlett is a Beit and Rhodes Scholar, and was awarded a Harvard Graduate Fellowship. He is an advocate and senior counsel admitted to Cape and Johannesburg Bars, and member of Gray's Inn, London. He has been a Judge of Appeal of Lesotho since1996. He is a former chair of the General Council of the Bar of South Africa, president of the Cape Bar and commissioner of the SA Law Reform Commission. He is currently co-chair of the Forum for Barristers and Advocates of the International Bar Association. He has been a member of the UCT Council since 1996 and a member of Council Exco since its inception. He was a member of the University Council Vice-Chancellor Selection Committee (2007), president of UCT Student Tribunal of Appeal (2000-2007), and chairs the university's Selection Committee for Deputy Vice-Chancellors.

Mr Justice Craig Howie

Justice Howie retired in August 2008 as President of the Supreme Court of Appeal. He served as a Judge's Registrar and Public Prosecutor before being admitted as advocate in the Cape Provincial Division in 1962. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 1976. In 1978 he was appointed as acting Judge in the Eastern Cape High Court, Judge in December of the same year, Acting Judge of Appeal in 1991 and permanently as a Judge of Appeal in 1993. He became President of the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2003. He served as member of Rhodes University Council and the UCT Council from 1974 to 1985 and 1991 to 1996 respectively.

Insaaf Isaacs

Insaaf Isaacs is the President of the Students' Representative Council at the University of Cape Town. Currently serving as a member of the Students' Representative Council for her second consecutive term in office, her first position was that of the Chair of Academics which required her to head all academic matters in the Students' Representative Council, ensure the development of an environment conducive to academic excellence and to be responsible for creating or enhancing education initiatives within the university and the surrounding communities. As the head of the Presidency, her role includes fulfilling the liaison and public relations function on behalf of the SRC, act as the external spokesperson of the Students' Representative Council and to be the chief custodian of the SRC Constitution.

Professor Mohamed Jeebhay

Mohamed Jeebhay is Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine. He is Associate Director (Occupational Health) of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research (COEHR) and convener of the occupational medicine specialist training programme. He obtained his PhD as Fogarty Scholar from the University of Michigan and has served on various technical committees related to occupational health and safety in the National Ministries of Health, Labour and Minerals and Energy. He is co-programme manager of the University of Michigan/Fogarty International Centre occupational and environmental health training programme for Southern Africa and national executive member and chair of the research committee of the Allergy Society of South Africa.

Professor Evance Kalula

Prof Kalula joined UCT in 1992 and is Professor of Employment Law and Social Security in the Department of Commercial law at UCT, and deputy dean of the Faculty of Law. He is also director of the Institute of Development and Labour Law and chair of the South African Employment Conditions Commission and a former Rhodes Scholar for Rhodesia and Zambia at Balliol College, Oxford. Professor Kalula has authored and contributed to numerous scholarly and policy papers, particularly on labour market regulation, Southern African labour relations law, social security and international and comparative labour law. He has served on a range of committees, including the University Strategy Committee and the Council Executive.

Alderman Owen Kinahan

Alderman Owen Kinahan is a history and African history graduate of UCT and a former teacher and public relations practitioner. He served three terms on the Cape Town City Council from 1996 – 2011 and specialised in planning and governance matters. He is presently in the Office of the Speaker, City of Cape Town, and responsible for governance and interface including the sub-councils, ward committees, public participation and special projects. Over 30 years of active participation in urban conservation and heritage issues have been recognised by the Cape Times Centenary Medal and the Molteno Medal. He is a founding trustee and serves on the executive of the Cape Town Heritage Trust. He has served three successive UCT Councils and is presently the chairperson of the Building and Development Committee and on the Irma Stern Museum Committee.

Professor Sandra Klopper

Professor Sandra Klopper took office as deputy vice-chancellor on 1 January 2012. Her portfolio includes providing leadership in the areas of teaching and learning, and academic planning. She has executive oversight of UCT Libraries and Information & Communication Technology Services (ICTS). Klopper uses the title of Professor in the Faculty of Humanities. Klopper has an honours degree in art history (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she returned to write her PhD thesis, tracing the socio-political histories of various traditionalist art forms from present-day northern KwaZulu-Natal. She also has an MA in art and social reform from the University of East Anglia, UK. She has a B2 rating from the National Research Foundation.

Ali Kiyaei

Ali Kiyaei is currently pursuing his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular and Cell Biology and also serves as the chair of postgraduate academics on the Student Representative Council. He has been involved in student affairs from his undergraduate years where he served and led the Science Students Council, and thereafter on the Postgraduate Students' Association. Furthermore, his leadership role extends beyond that of the university as he serves as an executive member of the United Nations Association of South Africa and on the board of two business start-ups. Through UNASA he advocates the role of societies taking responsiblilty of their own communities through the ideas of the UN Millenium Development Goals. His passion is that of community development through science and technology without undermining cultural heritage. To stay sane, he enjoys chess, ballroom dancing and meditation.

Mr Andre Kriel

Andre Kriel is general secretary of the Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU). He serves as an executive member of the Clothing Industry Bargaining Council as well as on the Textile Industry Bargaining Council. He is also a member of the COSATU Central Executive Committee. Before joining SACTWU, Kriel was a researcher with Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at UCT, and his research focus was on wages and conditions of employment.

Ms Qarnita Loxton

Qarnita Loxton is a legal and compliance consultant within the asset management industry. Prior to this she was the head of the Legal, Compliance and Company Secretariat at Sanlam Investment Management where her responsibilities extended to asset management, private equity, collective investments, private clients, properties and foreign asset management businesses. During the course of her career she has also worked for Sonnenberg Hoffman and Galombik Inc, BOE and Allan Gray Limited.

Ms Gloria Mamba

Ms Mamba is Divisional Executive: Investment Banking at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), with primary responsibility for management of the asset base, balance sheet optimisation, strategy formulation, special initiatives and managing relationships with key stakeholders. In this capacity, she serves on six Boards and Investment Committees, influencing strategy and development impact as well as investment decisions and returns. She is also a member of the Board of directors of the African Venture Capital association. Ms. Mamba holds a BA (cum laude) from Columbia University and a Masters in International Management (with Honours) from Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management.

Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo

Professor Nhlapo rejoined UCT as a deputy vice-chancellor in August 2004 from the South African Embassy in Washington DC, where he was the deputy chief of Mission. Previously, he had been a member of the law faculty at UCT, achieving the rank of professor in the Department of Private Law and head of department from 1994, before his appointment to the South African Law Commission as a full-time member. A holder of an LLB (Honours) from Glasgow University and a DPhil in Family Law from Oxford University, Prof Nhlapo has served as a member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL), the Governing Council of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), and of the SA National Group of Abribrators for the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

Dr Charles Okeahalam - Ph.D London; D.Sc Exeter

C. Charles Okeahalam is the CEO of AGH Capital – a private equity and investment holding company based in Johannesburg. He has experience in financial sector reforms, capital market development and infrastructure finance and has served as a non-executive director of a number of major companies. Prior to co–founding AGH in 2002, he was a professor of financial economics and banking at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He holds a Ph.D in econometrics of the University of London and a higher doctorate D.Sc in banking and finance of the University of Exeter.

Mr Trevor Petersen

Mr Petersen is Partner-in-Charge (Cape Town) and chair of PricewaterhouseCoopers Western Cape. Mr Petersen has been a member of the UCT Council since 2002, served as deputy chair of Council from 2004 to 2008 and is currently serving his second consecutive term as the Chair of the University Finance Committee.

Dr Max Price

Dr Max Price began his term of office as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town on 1 July 2008. Previous to his appointment he was an independent consultant in the fields of public health, health policy, medical education, and human resources for health planning, as well as consultant to the national Department of Education. Dr Price has a strong transformation record, built primarily during his tenure as Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1996 to 2006. A former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Four Outstanding Young South Africans Award winner (1992), and Student Representative Council president, Dr Price's professional work has included clinical work in hospitals and primary health care.

Associate Professor Ulrike Rivett

Ulrike Rivett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at UCT. She has 10 years' experience as an academic at UCT. During this time she served as an Executive member of the Academics Association and was the President of the Academics Union from 2006-2010. She is a founding member of Cell-Life, an NGO focused on the improving HIV treatment in under-resourced settings. Her research interest lies in the area of basic service delivery to the rural poor in developing countries, and in this function she heads up the iCOMMS team, an interdisciplinary group that supports government structures in offering community oriented and sustainable municipal services.

Mr Milton Seligson SC

Mr Milton Seligson is a practising advocate and Senior Counsel at the Cape Bar. He is a member of the Judicial Service Commission of SA and Board of Directors of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, USA. A former Chair of the General Council of the Bar of SA, President of the Cape Bar Council, and SA Bar Representative on the International Bar Association Council, he acted as a Judge in the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court. He was elected as an Honorary International Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2006. A former head of residence, SRC member and law lecturer at UCT, he was Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii Law School and Associate Professor at the Wayne State University Law School.

Professor Crain Soudien

Professor Crain Soudien is formerly the Director of the School of Education at the University of Cape Town and currently a Deputy Vice-Chancellor. He has published over 120 articles, reviews, reports, and book chapters in the areas of social difference, culture, education policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture. He is also the co-editor of three books in District Six, Cape Town and another on comparative education and the author of The Making of Youth Identity in Contemporary South Africa: Race, Culture and Schooling, and the co-author of Inclusion and Exclusion in South Africa and Indian Schools. He was educated at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and holds a PhD from the State university of new York at Buffalo. He is involved in a number of local, national and international social and cultural organizations and is the Chairperson of the District Six Museum Foundation, President of World Council of Corporative education Societies and currently the chair of Ministerial Committee on Transformation in Higher Education.

Emeritus Professor John Terblanche

Professor Terblanche's association with UCT as student, staff member and latterly Council member extends back to 1953. As head of Surgery for 20 years, he was active both locally and internationally in research and education. He is Past President of major international Liver and Surgical Societies, and locally, the Colleges of Medicine, Medical Association, Association of Surgeons and Surgical Research and Transplantation Societies. He has held honorary professorships in Colorado, USA, Royal Free Hospital, London and Rennes, France. He is an honorary fellow of 11 international Colleges and Societies. His other honours include Life Fellow, UCT, Silver Medal and Chairman's Award, S.A. Medical Association.

Ms Penelope Vinjevold

Ms Vinjevold has worked as a teacher, author and public servant. She taught for 16 years at schools in Johannesburg, Mafeking and Soweto before becoming the General Manager of Research at the Joint Education Trust. In 2005 Ms Vinjevold was a member of the panel appointed by the then Minister of Education, Kader Asmal to review the design and implementation of South Africa's new curriculum, and was on the Ministerial Project Committee appointed to oversee the development of the Revised National Curriculum Statement for Grades R-9. In 2002 she joined the Western Cape Education Department as Chief Director: Education Planning and in 2005 became the National Deputy Director General for Further Education and Training.

Professor Danie Visser

Professor Danie Visser began his term of Office as Deputy Vice-Chancellor on 1 January 2009. His portfolio also encompasses the libraries. Professor Visser is professor of private law at UCT and a recent recipient of a National Research Foundation A2 rating. He was educated in South Africa and the Netherlands, obtaining doctorates in law from Pretoria University in 1980 and the University of Leyden in 1985. He is a former dean of the Faculty of Law at UCT (1996-1998) and a sometime holder of the Huber C Hurst Eminent Visiting Scholar Chair at the University of Florida. At UCT, he taught comparative law, comparative legal history, the law of delict, and unjust enrichment.