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Professor Kader Asmal
Non Executive Chairman                        

Prof. Asmal has been a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly since 1994, is a former Minister of Education (1999 – 2004), Minister of Water Affairs (1994 – 1999) and Chairman of the Cabinet’s National Conventional Arms Control Committee (1995 – 2004) and now chairs the Portfolio Committee on Defence in the National Assembly.

He has been President of the Financial Action Task Force since 2005 and was chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee of experts at UNESCO negotiating the draft Convention on Cultural Diversity during 2004 – 2005.

He was born in Dukuza (Stanger) in KwaZulu Natal, educated at Stanger Indian Secondary School and the Springfield Department of Educators’ Training College. He has studied at UNISA (BA), London School of Economics and London University (LLM) where he was a law scholar, at King’s Inns, Dublin and Lincoln’s Inn, London (barrister-of-law). He is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He has been awarded seven honorary degrees by universities in Ireland and South Africa and is Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa.

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