Dr Charl JA du Plessis
Charl holds a South African law degree, an MBA from Yale and a PhD from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, USA. His PhD studies in Entrepreneurship and Ethics focused on the confluence of values and the creation of value. He has co-authored several textbooks on Business Ethics, published in international academic journals and presented his research papers at multiple international conferences, with an emphasis on economic justice. Charl has taught at the Universities of Virginia, Pretoria and Western Cape, working with undergraduates, graduates and Executives respectively. He prides himself on a consistent record of exceptional student evaluations for his enthusiastic, supportive and contextualised style of teaching.
Professionally, Charl has worked as consultant, manager and entrepreneur across different continents and a variety of industries. He has consulted to Fortune 500 companies in the US, premier financial institutions in South Africa and to philanthropic groups across different parts of Africa. He has worked with refugees in the rain forests of Guinea, led the start-ups of a variety of ventures and for the past 12 years has run his family’s niche media company in the custom, newsstand and digital publishing environment, creating space to raise a family with Dr Tanya Goodman, his partner in life and in publishing.
A teacher at heart, Charl has consistently carved out time to assist young learners in the Southern suburbs experiencing problems in a variety of school subjects, notably Mathematics, Afrikaans and Economics. As a highly involved father of two teenagers, 13 and 16 respectively, Charl stays actively abreast of the curriculum and schooling culture experienced by young learners
