SPECIAL INVITED MENTOR
Prof Johan Burger
Executive Education Specialist
UAEU College for Business and Economics
Johan Burger is the Business Development Manager for Executive Education at the College of Business and Economics at the UAE University in Abu Dhabi. The former Director of the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies and Senior Lecturer in International Business at the Nanyang Business School in Singapore had also previously served as Director of International Programmes at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), South Africa, where he taught Strategic Management, General Management and Financial Analysis to MBA students and business executives. He was a Research Associate at the Institute for Futures Research at USB, where he still does environmental scans regularly. His research interests include business models, emerging markets, growth opportunities and Africa. He has an MBA (cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch, three honours degrees (Military History, Strategic Studies and Business Administration – all cum laude), and a bachelor’s in Military Science (cum laude).