Marianne Camerer, Ph.D.
is a leading authority on anti-corruption and democratic governance reforms and for the past fifteen years has worked for non-profit organizations both in South Africa and the United States. Marianne is the co-founder and international director of Global Integrity, an independent, non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world. Previously, from 1995 to 2002 she headed anti-corruption research at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), and in 2000 was a founding director of ODAC. Marianne has consulted for international organizations such as the World Bank and United Nations and holds master's degrees in public policy and political philosophy from Oxford and the University of Stellenbosch. Her doctorate in Political Studies from the University of Witwatersrand focused on the arms deal to evaluate the effectiveness of anti-corruption reforms in democratic South Africa. A Fellow of the Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Stellenbosch, she has taught a masters course on business ethics and in 2005/2006 spent a stimulating year in New Haven, Connecticut as a Yale World Fellow. In 2010 Marianne joined Leadership Solutions (www.leadershipsolutions.co.za) as a leadership development specialist and is currently based in Durban.
Justin Arenstein
is a multi-award winning investigative journalist based in South Africa but also working in Malawi, Mozambique and Swaziland, Arenstein heads the region's only investigative pan-African news agency, African Eye News Service AENS social justice investigation team, headed by Arenstein, won the SA Human Rights Journalism Award 2001 for exposing wrongful deaths in rural hospitals, & child labour on commercial farms. In 2000 The US-based International Centre for Journalists granted its Knight International Press Fellowship Award to AENS in 2000 and cited Arenstein for outstanding independent investigative reportage in rural Africa.
Richard Calland, Prof
Is the part time Executive Director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC) and a founding director of the Centre formed in 2000. He is also head of the Economic Governance Programme at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). Prior to that he practised law at the London Bar for seven years, specialising in human rights law. He holds post-graduate degrees in World Politics and Comparative Constitutional Law (LLM) from the London School of Economics and the University of Cape Town respectively. He has published extensively on the politics of the South African transition and is a political columnist for the South African Mail & Guardian. He is the author of Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power? He has consulted for the Carter Center, Atlanta, as part of its transparency programme in Latin America.
Paul Graham
is the Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). Mr Graham is a director in his capacity as representative of IDASA.
Marcella Naidoo
joined the Black Sash as National Director in 2002. Her experience in grassroots organising began more than 25 years ago when she helped establish the Advice Office for the Lotus River & Grassy Park Residents' Association. Marcella went on to set-up and manage the then Advice Office Forum before joining the Social Work department at the University of the Western Cape. In 1996, she joined the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up by former President Nelson Mandela, serving on its executive management team until its work was completed. Marcella holds a BSocSci from UCT.She sits on the boards of ODAC (Open Democracy Advice Centre), the Legal Aid Board, the Ditikeni and Sakhikamva Trusts and SALAN (Southern African Legal Assistance Network). She is also a member of the new Steering Committee of Community Advice Offices and Paralegals.
Meryl du Plessis
Meryl du Plessis joined the Department in January 2008. She obtained the degrees BCom LLB and LLM from Rhodes University. She started working as a research assistant to the judges in the Eastern Cape High Court in Grahamstown in January 2004. In July 2006 she joined the Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law (CICLASS) at the University of Johannesburg as a researcher. During that time, she was involved in research for various government institutions and the World Bank on, inter alia, the key gaps with constitutional implications in South Africa’s social security system; the constitutional compliance, or otherwise, of government in providing social welfare services; and access to social services by non-citizens and portability of benefits in the SADC region. Her current research interests lie in the field of socio-economic rights, the institutional design and governance of public social security institutions and comparative workers' compensation systems.
