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The Southern African Regional Poverty Network invites you to participate in a Roundtable discussion on
China’s growth:
Implications for poverty reduction in SADC
How can Africa (SADC) benefit from China's economic expansion?
Date: 29 March 2006
Time: 13:30 – 16:30
Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria
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Biographies
Profile of Dr. Martyn Davies, Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University
Dr Martyn J. Davies is Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University that was established under the South Africa - China Bi-national Commission. In this role he oversees research, exchange programmes and chairs the visiting speaker's initiative within the "China Roundtable". He is also a Senior Lecturer (Extraordinaire) within the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch.
Martyn is a Senior Lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) managing the Asia Business Centre. He is active in lecturing both MBA and Executive programs on Asian business case studies. He also teaches an MBA elective course on "Business Strategy in China" at the Graduate School of Business, Stellenbosch University.
Martyn is a founding Director of Emerging Market Focus, a research and strategy-consulting firm. In this position he is active in advising South African and foreign companies and organisations on their business strategies in offshore markets. As a management consultant for six years, Martyn has project experience in a wide range of industries. He has provided business strategy solutions on behalf of corporate clients in a large number of countries. He has consulted for organisations such as the World Bank, NEDLAC, Edcon, Old Mutual, Metropolitan, BATEMAN, National Brands, Degussa and Lufthansa.
He has written over 200 articles in academia and the press, both domestic and foreign, and has published a
number of book chapters to political-economic publications. He is a regular commentator to the South African and international media.
Martyn has moderated private sessions at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Africa Summit meeting held in Cape Town in June 2005 as well as at the WEF's China Business Summit held in Beijing in September 2005.
Martyn holds a BA degree in Law, an Honours Degree in International Relations (cum laude), a Master's Degree in International Relations (cum laude) (Wits), a Diploma in Asian Studies (Yonsei University, Seoul), and a PhD in International Relations (Wits). He also has a certificate from Harvard Business School for its "Making Markets Work" executive course.
He has received a number of awards including the Jan Smuts Prize for the top ranked International Relations student at Wits University (1992), Postgraduate Merit Award (1993-1998), the National Research Foundation scholarship award (1993-1998), a scholarship award by the Seoul National Peace Prize Foundation (1996-1997), research scholarship from the Korea Foundation (1997-1998) and a scholarship from the China Youth Corps (1994). He is conversant in basic Chinese Mandarin and Korean.
Martyn splits his time between his homes in Parkhurst, Johannesburg and Cape Town. His personal interests include Chinese history, reading and sports. He has been awarded Protea Colours for cycling for South African Universities, played soccer for his alma mater Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and participated in athletics/cross country representing Southern Transvaal at high school level. He has been married to Suheima since April 2004. ()
Profile of Dr. Lourenзo Inacio Duvane, ORAM Mozambique
Actual position: Director of ORAM, head of Zambйzia delegation and land tenure specialist, initiated the activities in this province in 1995; I am one of the founders of ORAM.
ORAM - Rural Association for Mutual Support it's a national NGO funded bay Mozambican by the 90s just after the peace accord in Rome for Moзambique; the main objective was to participate and help the rural communities to settle them self after war and returning from neighboring countries as well as from displaced and safer zones during the war. The period was characterized by many land conflicts.
Mean while the need for reconstruction was there and the rush to land was intense, and unfortunately, ORAM realized that the peasant (turned by war), was not there; so ORAM objectives can be described in two main folds (i) to prevent and solve land conflicts and receive family producers back home (ii) to engage the peasant in the new process of rural development after war.
By late 95 we started a program in Zambezia Province aiming the main objectives of ORAM. In 99 we came to a contact with the first forestry conflicts; with a local university we did a study on forestry use and management and we came to a sad conclusion, that the legislation was not appropriate, the institution were weakened, the forestry production capacity was unknown an the forestry exploitation was for whoever wanted to; there was a period of total anarchy. A lobby program was launch and, as a result we came to a forestry and wild life law, reform.
After 6 years was of good intent to get to know the actual situation of the forestry governance; in 2004 we came out with the Chinese takeaway; this is more deepened report on the issue. The main conclusions were (i) good legislation, (ii) weaknesses of institution that deals with forestry, (iii) corruption, (iv) "takeaway" process of logging, (v) loggers not professionals (vi)no community participation in the process of forest management, (vii) no local wood industry.
As a result of this study a campaign of good governance was started under the forum of NGO in the Zambйzia Province and then at the national level. Besides information and meetings with civil society, key people in the country were met (members of Parliament, International NGOs, members of local e central Government) and some "tiny and sweetie" results emerged during the last season of forest harvest.
Profile of Peter Draper, Research Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
Mr Draper is Research Fellow and Head: "Development Through Trade" programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs. His areas of expertise are trade policy and trade negotiations, with particular reference to the World Trade Organisation, the Southern African region and South Africa's bilateral ties with key trading partners.
He has published numerous reports and book chapters on trade issues; many articles in domestic and international newspapers, and is frequently interviewed on trade policy matters. He has also edited a number of books and monographs. He has coordinated a number of projects for various donors, including: USAID; DFID; JETRO; The German Development Institute; the Friederich Ebert Stiftung; and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. South African government departments and the donor community regularly seek his advice on various trade policy matters.
He is also a member of Business Unity South Africa's trade committee; lectures International Business at South Africa's premier Business School (Wits Business School); and is a Research Associate of the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria.
Previously he headed, respectively: The Department of Economics at the University of Durban-Westville; the Asia and Mercosur desks at the Department of Trade and Industry; and Economic Analysis and Research in the DTI's International Trade and Economic Development Division.
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