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Prof Vivienne Lawack

Professor Vivienne Lawack is the Deputy Vice-
Chancellor: Academic at the University of the Western
Cape, where she is also a Professor of Law. She holds
a BJuris cum laude, an LLB cum laude and an LLM
from Nelson Mandela University. She also holds an
LLD and is an admitted, non-practising advocate of
the High Court of South Africa. Vivienne began her
legal career as an academic at Vista University and the
former University of Port Elizabeth, before working at
the South African Reserve Bank in various capacities,
including senior legal counsel for South Africa’s central
securities depository. In 2008, she served as Executive
Dean of the Faculty of Law at Nelson Mandela
University. She joined UWC in 2015. Vivienne is an
expert in law, economics and the intersection of the
two fields, and has published extensively, including
two books and numerous articles. She is highly
engaged in her community, participating in various
committees in the legal, financial and education
sectors. Her latest book, Stemme van Clarkson, tells
the story of the community from which she hails,
namely, the Moravian mission station at Clarkson. She
is a former chair of the Moravian Church
Trust, a member of the South
African Judicial Education
Institute Council and a
member of the Kepler
Institute Board and
Kepler College Board
in Rwanda.

Dr Michael Ferreira

Based in the United States, automotive executive and financial services advisor Dr
Michael Ferreira is the Senior Vice-President of Global Sales and Marketing at Donlen
Corporation, an international leasing and fleet management company, previously
owned by Hertz. Michael completed his undergraduate studies in Marketing and
Business Management at Nelson Mandela University in 1987 and obtained
his MBA and doctorate in Business Management in the UK. Able to speak
Dutch, Portuguese and German, he has worked all over the world, notching
up 30 years of marketing and financial services experience in the fleet
and mobility industries across five continents. From 1990 to 2001, he was
National Sales and Marketing Manager, and Managing Director of the Avis
Fleet Services subsidiaries in Southern Africa, before moving on to become
Commercial Sales Leader at GE Capital Australia and New Zealand. From
2004 to 2017, he worked for the Porsche Automotive Group, first as Country
Manager for the Sales Finance Division of Porsche Cars Australia and New
Zealand, and then as Vice-President of Marketing and Sales Finance for
Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti in North America. During this
time, he took on additional roles in Germany and was also appointed Head
of Special Projects for Volkswagen Financial Services in Brazil.

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