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Prof Fulufhelo (Fulu) Netswera, is the Executive Dean Faculty of Management Sciences at Durban University of Technology (DUT). He was headhunted to establish the DUT Business School which became functional in 2021. He concurrently heads the BRICS Research Institute which he established at DUT in 2022.
Before DUT, he was the Director of the North West University Business School; the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at CPUT; Director of the South African BRICS Think Tank (SABTT) at the NIHSS; Director of the Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership (TGSL) at University of Limpopo; and Research Management Director at UNISA.
He served as non-executive director at PIKITUP (City of Johannesburg); Non-executive Board member of the Human Sciences Research Council; Acting Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the South African Business School Association; an Executive of Southern Africa Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA).
He was Emerging Philanthropy Fellow at City University of New York. He was an adjunct Professor at TUT; is an Adjunct Professor at UTAMU in Uganda; a former Erasmus Mundus Fellow at Groningen University in Netherlands and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Lincoln International Business School in the UK. Netswera served as an Adjudicator for the Women in Sciences Awards (WISA) at Department of Science and Technology (DST) for many years and adjudicator at National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Research Awards.
His recent publications include, Book 1: Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-National Perspectives on the Challenges and Management of Higher Education in Crisis Times published by Brill; Book 2: State-owned enterprises in Africa and the economics of public service delivery published by OASIS; Book 3: COVID9 and climate change in BRICS nations by Routledge; Book4: Entrepreneurship in the BRICS Economic Development and growth in the post pandemic era by Routledge; Book 5: Innovation and developed of agriculture systems by Palgrave McMillan.