John Luiz
Professor
Graduate School of Business
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Biography
John Luiz is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA accredited) specialising in International Business Strategy; Business, Society, and Government; and Emerging Markets (particularly their institutions and how MNEs operate within and impact these institutions). In addition, he is Director of International Relations responsible for amongst other things international accreditation and international strategy and partnerships, and has successfully taken the School through AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA accreditation. Previously he was a Professor at the Wits Business School and served in various capacities including as their Director of International Programmes and as Academic Director. He has also been Executive Dean in the Faculty of Management at the University of Johannesburg. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999, 2006 and 2011, at the Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy in 2015, a Senior Global Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, Germany in 2016, a Visiting Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago 2011-2013, and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University in 2006. Besides the Ph.D., John has completed various other programmes including the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Development Economics at Cambridge University, the Wharton Global Faculty Development Programme, and Strategic Management at the Harvard Business School. He is a member of various professional bodies and in 2014 became the President of the Economic Society of South Africa. He was also appointed by the South African Cabinet to the National South African Statistics Council. He is on the Editorial Board of several journals and a referee for over a dozen more.
Research Interest
International Business; Business in Africa; Business, Society, and Government Economics of Emerging Markets
