Roadmap for Economic Recovery: Lessons from South Africa

Colin is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. A former partner of Goldman Sachs, he was Chief Executive Officer, Sub Saharan Africa, Goldman Sachs up until his retirement end 2019. He was head of the Goldman Sachs South Africa office from 2000. In 2008, he was named head of the Investment Banking Division for Sub-Saharan Africa. He was named managing director in 2002 and partner in 2010. Colin was an anti-apartheid activist and deeply involved in South Africa’s constitutional transition from apartheid to democracy. He served in working groups of the multi-party talks, facilitated the International Mediation Forum and helped to negotiate the agreement to facilitate all parties’ participation in South Africa’s 1994 elections. Colin was named one of the World Economic Forum’s "Global Leaders for Tomorrow". He was also a recipient of Harvard Business School’s “Business Statesman Award” on behalf of the Consultative Business Movement and was named one of Euromoney's World Top Ten “Financing leaders for the 21st Century." Colin is a Senior Advisor to the Eurasia Group and an independent non-executive member of the Board of The Foschini Group. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the CEO Initiative, and is Co-Chairman of the Youth Employment Service (YES).

Sasha Polakow-Suransky is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. He was a 2015-2016 Open Society Foundations fellow and previously worked as an op-ed editor at the New York Times and a senior editor at Foreign Affairs. Polakow-Suransky is the author of Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy and The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. He holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mudunwazi Baloyi is the Country Head: USA for Brand South Africa based in New York. Before this position he held several senior positions in the South African government including being Chief Director for Global Bilateral Economic Relations at the dti, as well as roles ranging from trade, industry, investment and economic development to logistics especially cross border movement of people and goods and services. He also served as Minister Economic heading the trade and industry / investment division at the Embassy of South Africa in Washington, D.C., from 2002 to beginning of 2008 where he was responsible for negotiations, market access issues, WTO, trade and investment promotion, etc. Prior to this he worked for the South African Government, Department of Trade and Industry as Director for Africa and the Middle East, responsible for economic development and negotiations by encouraging outward investment from South Africa into Africa and the Middle East regions.  This also involved packaging of investment opportunities for promotion to relevant sponsors in South Africa and elsewhere globally within the framework of New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Initiative. He has also previously worked as Chief Economist at the National Treasury responsible for policy development on South Africa’s engagement with the multilateral development finance institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, African Development Bank, etc. Mr. Baloyi holds an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Western Cape and a Masters Degree in Development Economics from Williams College, Center forDevelopment Economics, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. Mr Baloyi also holds several post graduate diplomas in management and leadership from Harvard Business School, Gordon Institute of Business Sciences, and others.