Krige Visser (PhD) is an Emeritus Professor from the University of Pretoria since 2016. Having graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the University of Stellenbosch in 1973, Krige Visser was mainly involved in research and development at the Atomic Energy Corporation of South Africa from 1974 to 1988. He was also involved in the commissioning of a pilot plant and the full-scale uranium enrichment plant. Various pilot plant investigations were performed to determine the performance of the process gas separation elements. One project also comprised an investigation into the removal of oil vapor from hydrogen by means of activated carbon adsorption columns. This project led to the PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria in 1990.

He then joined the Denel company from 1988 to 1974 where he was involved in systems engineering and project management in armaments procurement. One project involved the design and development of a chemical survival system for an armoured car. He was appointed as manager for a business unit with 27 employees.
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Adriette Dekker is a professor in the Department of Mercantile Law at the University of South Africa.

She has completed her LLB at the University of Pretoria and her LLM at the University of South Africa. She also completed her LLD degree at the University of South Africa (in 2005) on the topic of informal social security law.

Adriette is an admitted attorney, conveyancer and notary of the High Court of South Africa. She practised as attorney at Van der Merwe Du Toit for more than 5 years. She joined academia in 2000 when she was appointed as coordinator for the Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law (at the then RAU, currently the University of Johannesburg).

She joined UNISA in 2003 where she currently teaches labour and social security law at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In 2009 she has also qualified as an NRF-rated researcher.
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Dr Dolf Steyn, is fifty-nine years of age, married, father to three children and grandpa to one.

He is currently self-employed as freelance Project manager, Higher Education consultant, and facilitator. His last full-time position was that of Managing Director for Pearson Institute of Higher Education (commonly referred to as a private University). Having led a national multi campus company which was internationally owned by a London listed company, he is well salted and equipped to deal with the range, complexity, and nature of the associated challenges. He has rich experience in dealing with all components of managing, leading, technology adoption and working in Higher education and the international corporate environment.

During his time as a Lead consultant at Deloitte consulting, he started a project management office for a team who among others did SABA installations, LMS rollouts and custom software solutions.
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Professor Birgit Kuschke graduated with the degrees BLC (cum laude) in 1986 and LLB (cum laude) in 1988 from the University of Pretoria and the LLD degree in 2009 at the University of South Africa. Kuschke holds a C2 NRF-rating as researcher.

She is a practising attorney, notary, and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa (admitted in 1994) and practised for her own account from 1994 until 2005 and resumed her attorneys practice from September 2020. As a practising attorney she lectures Drafting of Contracts for candidate attorneys at the Law Schools presented under the auspices of the Law Society of South Africa.

Kuschke served as Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning of the Faculty of Law from 1 July 2018 until 2019, as Acting Dean (ad hoc) and is currently an Associate professor in the Department of Mercantile Law and a co-Director of the Unit for Insurance Law and Governance.
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