Oscar van Heerden

Dr. Oscar van Heerden is a scholar of international relations (IR), where he focuses on international political economy, with an emphasis on Africa, and SADC in particular. He completed his PhD and masters studies at the University of Cambridge. He lectured IR at the University of the Witwatersrand and was also a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg under the NRF chair for international relations and African diplomacy. His work experience over the last two decades has been in strategic support at the ANC headquarters in the late 1990s, the South African Qualifications Authority in 2000, and since then as an independent Management consultant in his own company, Kelello Consulting, working mostly but not exclusively with various government departments, in particular the security cluster.