GCRO Board
Belinda Bozzoli, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is a sociologist, and is the author of numerous books and articles on South African topics as diverse as women’s life stories, the ideology of big business, and township rebellion. She is currently involved in the study of sexual violence. She is also Chair of the Board of the National Research Foundation.
Adam Habib is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Advancement at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has held academic appointments over the last decade at the Universities of Durban-Westville and KwaZulu-Natal and the Human Science Research Council. Prior to being appointed Executive Director of the Democracy and Governance Programme of the Human Science Research Council in 2004, he served as the founding director of the Centre for Civil Society and a research professor in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Habib has served as co-editor of both the social science academic journal Transformation and the official disciplinary journal of the South African Association of Political Science, Politkon. He also sits on the editorial boards of Voluntas, South African Labour Bulletin, and UNESCO’s 2009 World Social Science Report. Habib’s research interests include democratisation and development, contemporary social movements, giving and solidarity, institutional reform, race, redress and citizenship, and South Africa’s role in Africa and beyond. He has recently concluded studies on the state of academic freedom as part of the task group on academic freedom and institutional autonomy established by the Council for Higher Education, and an evaluation of affirmative action and redress and their impact on citizenship in South Africa.
Prof. Rob Moore is Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand ('Wits') in Johannesburg. He spent twelve years at the University of Cape Town researching and teaching in higher education studies, before being appointed as Director of Institutional Audits for South Africa's Council on Higher Education. He then joined Wits in 2006 as Director of Strategic Planning. In 2007, he was appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Advancement & Partnerships). His research interests have focused on issues of institutional adaptation. In particular, he has published on issues of institutional responsiveness to policy, on curriculum reform, and on the development of management capacity. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Studies in Higher Education.
Director of the Centre for Sociological Research
Annette Griessel is the Deputy Director General of Policy and Governance in the Office of the Premier, Gauteng Provincial Government, responsible for strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, policy development and research, cabinet systems and international and intergovernmental relations. She played a key role in the establishment of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory and other initiatives aimed at developing Gauteng as a more socially inclusive, equitable and prosperous city-region.
She holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Cape Town. She has held positions in media and communications, including within the trade union and political movements and served as head of communications for the Department of Labour and later for the Gauteng Provincial Government.
Present Position: Head of Gauteng Planning Commission in the office of the Gauteng Premier
