Jackie Chimhanzi

CEO, African Leadership Institute

Jackie is a seasoned strategist with some 20 years’ experience in strategy – as both an academic and a practitioner. She is passionate about Africa and is driven by a desire to see a better Africa, in her lifetime. She is the CEO of the African Leadership Institute which runs the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship, in partnership with Oxford University.  She is a keen Africa watcher and was recognised by Forbes Africa magazine as one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa in 2012 – women under 45 shaping the narrative of Africa’s rising. In 2020, she was featured on the "100 Most Reputable Africans" list and in 2019, on the "100 Most Influential African Women" list.  She was, previously, the Senior Strategist of the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC) and before that, as a Strategy Lead at Deloitte Consulting, she led project teams on diverse client engagements, interrogating and informing the strategies of major entities in the power, oil and gas, steel and brewery industries.  Whilst at Deloitte, she was instrumental in setting up the Deloitte Africa Desk and advised clients on accessing opportunities on the African continent.

 She serves as a non-executive board member and Audit and Risk Committee member of the AdvTech Group, a JSE-listed entity in private education and Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. She is also the Chair of that Board's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Committee. She serves in a number of advisory capacities as a member of the ONE Africa Policy Advisory Board and as a member of the World Economic Forum's Africa Regional Strategy Group. She holds a BSc (Hons), MBA (with Distinction) and a PhD (Strategic Marketing) - all from Cardiff Business School, UK.  As an academic, she lectured and authored and co-authored papers in peer reviewed leading academic journals and presented her work at various international fora.  She is a 2010 Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow.