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Elizabeth Austerberry, Country Managing Director, International Housing Solutions

Dr Ted Avis, Managing Director, Coastal & Environmental Services

Mr Neil Cloete, Managing Director, Grinaker- LTA

Kim Faclier, Property Specialist, Alliance Group

Mr Ian Fife, Property Editor, Financial Mail

Mr Markus Franz, Founder & Head CTO, BF Blogform Search Gmbh

Mr Neil Fraser, Partner, Urban Inc.

Mr Gerald Garner, Editor: Urban Green File, Brooke Pattrick Publications (Pty) Ltd

Mr Stewart Gibson, Director, Stewart Gibson & Associates

Mr Vinson Hailulu, CEO, National Housing Enterprise

Mr Philip Harrison, Executive Director: Development Planning and Urban Managemen, City of Johannesburg Philip Harrison is Executive Director of Development Planning and Urban Management in the City of Johannesburg and an honorary professor at the University of the Witwatersrand where he was previously Professor of Urban and Regional Planning. He has a Ph.D from the University of Natal and has published widely in national and international journals, and has has jointly authored two books in the field of planning and urban development.

Mr Gerry Holtzhausen, Assistant Executive in Job Summit Project, National Housing Finance Corporation

Mr Des Hughes, Managing Director, Basil Read Developments

Mr Eric Itzkin, Deputy Director: Immovable Heritage, Department of Community Development, City of Johannesburg

Mr Ignatius Jacobs, MEC: Public Transport, Roads and Works, Gauteng Provincial Government

Mr Rob Jeffrey, Senior Economist, Econometrix

Ms Della Levinsohn, Director, DL & Associates

Mr Geophrey Majiwa, City Mayor, City of Nairobi, Kenya

Mr Sonwabile Mancotywa, CEO, National Heritage Council

Mr Webber Marais, Chief Executive, Top Fix Holdings

Mr Stefan Maree, Director, Agripro Property Development Consultants Director: Agripro Property Development Consultants CEA (Certified Estate Agent) and Member of Institute of Estate Agents Have extensive experience in property development, property management, property marketing and sales and strategic business planning and management.

Mr Stefano Mattiello, Executive Head: Enterprise Unit, Neotel

Mr Monde Mawasha, CDC Chief Info Officer, Coega Development Corporation

Lindiwe Mbongwe, Divisional Director, Nedbank

Cllr Ntombi Mekgwe, Executive Mayor, Ekurhuleni MetroplitanMunicipality Duma Nkosi was elected to the position of chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Minerals and Energy in 1997, three years after being elected a Member of the South African Parliament. In this role he was responsible for the smooth functioning of this committee, which involved ensuring it fulfills its functions of monitoring the Department of Minerals and Energy, mineral and energy legislation processes, and any other matters relating to the Department or institutions associated with it. Duma is a well known figure on the South African mining landscape as he also serves on the Board of the Minerals and Energy and Training Institute (MEETI) and serves on the steering committee of the KWAGGA Project of the Minerals and Energy Policy Centre (MEPC). This project aims to increase the participation of previously excluded groups in minerals policy formulation and mining. Nkosi’s role as a parliamentarian was rooted in an arduous history as a political activist in the South African freedom struggle. His involvement in this struggle resulted in him assuming leadership positions from a young age in both the trade union movement and the African National Congress (ANC). This organizational experience allows him to manage the rigours of one of the most complex industries in South Africa. Nkosi is the Executive Mayor of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality – formerly known as the East Rand, and the Regional Chairperson of the ANC in Ekurhuleni. He is also the Chairperson of the South African Local Government Association in Gauteng (Salga-Gauteng), and a functionary of the national local government employer body - the South African Local Government Association (SALGA).

Mr Peter Metcalfe, Chairman, Foundation for the Development of Africa

Mr Mansoor Mohamed, Executive Director: Department of Economic & social Development, City of Cape Town

Ms Nomvula Mokonyane, Housing MEC, Department of Housing

Mr Jay Naidoo, Chairman, DBSA Jay Naidoo is Chairman of the J&J Group Development Trust launched as the social development strategy of the J&J Group a management and investment Company that has education and health as its key outcomes. He is also Chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) a major infrastructure financing institution operating in the Southern African Region; He is also Chairman of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) a major public private partnership launched by Bill Gates and Kofi Annan in 2002 to fight malnutrition facing two billion people in the world. His directorships include Old Mutual SA and the NYSE-listed Dr Reddy’s Laboratories South Africa. He is a member of the International Telecommunications Union Advisory Board of Directors to the Secretary General and the deputy chair and trustee of the Lovelife Trust, a NGO fighting the AIDS pandemic in South Africa. He recently joined the Global Health Advisory Panel of the Bill and Melinda Foundation and the Health Advisory Committee of the Clinton Global Initiative. A leading anti-apartheid activist, Jay was also the first General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country’s largest federation of unions, which played a leading role in the struggle for freedom. From 1994 to 1999, he was Minister in the President's Office responsible for the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) and later Minister of Telecommunications, Post and Broadcasting in Nelson Mandela’s cabinet Jay was born on 20 December 1954, is married to Lucie Pagé, a journalist and writer and regards his three beautiful children as his biggest achievement.

Mr Eric Noir, Principal Architect & Director, Green by Design

Mr Vusi Nondo, Targeted Investment Executive, Old Mutual Investment Group- Property Investments

Mr Solomon Nortje, Head Infrastructure Equity Investment, Absa Capital

Mr Paresh Pandya, Manager: Trade & Investment Promotion, Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency

Mr Kogan Pillay, Business Development head, Treasury

Kecia Rust, Coordinator: Housing Finance, Finmark Trust

Ms Esther Schmidt, Acting General Exective Manager: Business Networks Mobility , Johannesburg Roads Agency

Mr Gaster Sharpley, City Manager, Buffalo City Municipality

Mr Soita Shitanda, Minister of Housing, Ministry of Kenya

Mr Wimpie Snyman, CEO: Development Finance & Commercial Property, FNB Commercial Property

Mr Nirvesh Sooful, Board Member, it4ALL Development Agency

Elize Stroebel, Country Managing Director, International Housing Solutions Elize Stroebel is the Country Director responsible for overall investment sourcing and operations management in South Africa. Prior to joining IHS, Ms. Stroebel was the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Gauteng Partnership Fund (“GPF”), a company that engages in private sector financing of low to middle income housing development, where she managed and maintained all GPF capital and operational resources. In addition, she developed proper due diligence processes for ensuring sustainable investment by the GPF in projects and assessed the business plans and financial projections of the institutions that applied for GPF funding. Ms. Stroebel led negotiations with applicants on the type and amount of investment the GPF made in any specific project, as well as negotiations regarding shareholder, equity subscription, and put and call agreements. Prior to this position Ms. Stroebel worked as a conveyancing candidate attorney at a number of legal firms in South Africa and was appointed in 1995 as Deputy Director: Land Affairs where she dealt with government land acquisition, disposal and management. In 1998, she was appointed as a Director for the Department of Housing of the Gauteng Provincial Government from 1998 to 2000 and was responsible for the management of the department’s portfolio of approximately 20,000 properties. Ms. Stroebel received her law degree from the University of Pretoria in 1990 and a masters degree in business management from the University of Johannesburg in 2004. She also taught various courses in housing and project finance in the Public and Development Management Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand Business School in association with the and Wharton Business School.

Mr Tony Twine, Director & Senior Economist, Econometrix

Mr Pieter van der Schyf, Executive Director, Sea Kay Holdings

Mr Pierre Venter, Low-cost housing official, Banking Association of South Africa

Mr Peter Waweru, Chief Executive Officer, Calgro M3

Ms Shivon Wiggins, Head of Division: Property, Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency

Dr Joel Yudken, Economic Development Consultant & Advisory Board Member, Global Urban Development Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development (www.globalurban.org), an international policy organization with offices in Barcelona, Beijing, London, Prague, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington, DC. He is also Executive Editor of Global Urban Development Magazine and Coordinator of the Climate Prosperity Project in partnership with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In addition, he is President of Climate Prosperity Strategies in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations-Habitat Best Practices and Policies Program, and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Downtown Association. He previously served as a Public Policy Scholar and Editor of Global Outlook at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, as the Coordinator of the Congressionally mandated Strategic Economic Development Plan for Washington, DC, as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration, as Director of the Real Estate Development Research Center and Associate Professor of Urban Development, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, and as Deputy Director of the California Commission on Industrial Innovation. He is the author or co-author of many books, articles, and reports, including a widely acclaimed book on urban development and planning, The Rise of the Community Builders, and a best-selling international textbook, Real Estate Development Principles and Process, published by the Urban Land Institute. He has been a consultant on environmentally sustainable economic and community development in cities and regions in the U.S. and throughout the world, including South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and the Virgin Islands. He earned an M.C.P. and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Stanford University, plus he attended the London School of Economics in the U.K.

our speakers Honourable Soita Shitanda Minister of Housing Kenya       Ignatius Jacobs MEC Public Works, Roads and Transport Gauteng Provincial Government, South Africa Honourable Duma Nkosi Executive Mayor Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa Vinson Hailulu Chief Executive Officer National Housing Enterprise, Namibia   Dr Marc A. Weiss Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Global Urban Development Washington, USA › Speakers list sponsors Bronze:   Official Cocktail Sponsor – Affordable Housing Day     business zone partner       endorsed by       Official publication   Media partners