Summary

BCom, CTA, Chartered Accountant (SA),  BCom Tax honours,  LLM

Education

• 1971 – Matriculated 1^st class – Wynberg Boys High, Western Cape, South Africa
• 1972-76 – UCT : Bachelor of Commerce and Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy
• 1977 – Passed Chartered Accountant final qualifying examination
• 1978-79 – Completed the two year B Com honours course in taxation at UCT
• 1992 – Completed Masters degree in Commercial Law at UCT

Work

• 1976-82 – Arthur Young & Co (CA’s) – appointed tax consultant 1980
• 1982-86 – Arthur Andersen & Co (CA’s) – appointed international tax manager 1982

(Head of tax division in Cape Town 1983; Tax partner 1983)

• 1986 – Anglo American Corporation – Group Tax Consultant – Head of global tax /
• 2000 – Anglo American plc group – Senior Vice President – Head of global tax
• 2001 – Anglo American plc group – Executive Vice President – Head of global tax
• 2001 to date – Standard Bank Group – Director: Group Tax – Head of global tax

Academic & professional activities

• 2010 – Appointed adjunct professor by Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, USA on the IITF HDip Tax
• External examiner for the Stellenbosch University Accounting Dept Tax Honours and Masters courses
• Designer of the University of South Africa (Unisa) mining tax course, past external examiner for Unisa
• Occasional lecturer at following Universities: U Johannesburg, Stellenbosch, Witwatersrand and Unisa
• Founder and editor of the journal SA Tax Review
• Acting chairman of tax committee of Banking Association South Africa
• Past member of tax committees of the SA Chamber of Business, SA Chamber of Mines, and the
  SA Institute of Chartered Accountants
• Past executive member of the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce
• Chairman of the SA Fiscal Association (SAFA) Scientific Committee since 1990
• Member of the International Fiscal Association’s Permanent Scientific Committee since 2008.
• Past adviser to the Katz Commission on SA Taxation
• Member of the bench of the statutory South African Tax Court since 1994
• SA junior corporate businessman award for 1992 – Junior Afrikaans Chamber of Commerce
• Past Director of companies within the Anglo American group
• Regular invitee to give expert advice to SA National Treasury, Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Finance, and the SA Minerals Development Association
• Past founder Member of the South African statutory Financial & Fiscal Commission
• Addressed the UN Intergovernmental Forum on Resources Tax (Geneva – September 2007)
• Official observer at the OECD Forum for Tax Administration
  Frequent speaker and lecturer on fiscal matters.

Academic writing & publishing

• Articles published extensively in financial and academic journals
• Author of the textbook Mining Tax in South Africa
• Specialist in research on international tax trends
• Past publisher of the SA Tax Review
• Past SA correspondent for Tax Notes International published by Tax Analysts (USA)
• Past SA correspondent for Tax Notes Service: International Bureau for Fiscal Documentation
• Correspondent for the Bulletin of the International Fiscal Association
• Currently working on a biography of Boer War soldier and author Deneys Reitz