Core Faculty

Peter Willis
South African Director, University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership

He has been working in the field of corporate sustainability strategy and environmental policy in South Africa since 1995. He has run the Southern African office of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership since 2002 and in that role he is the regional chair of The Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme. In the 1980s and early 1990s in the UK he created and ran several small businesses in the field of fine art publishing and marketing. He has degrees in History (Oxford) and Education (London) and moved to Cape Town with his South African-born wife in 1993. He sits on the Academic Advisory Council for TSiBA, the innovative free business school, where he also mentors students, and is Chairman of the sustainability-oriented Stanford Valley Farm and Institute near Hermanus.

Contact: Tel: +27 21 469 4765; Email: peter.willis@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Enos Banda
Founder and CEO of Freetel Capital (Pty) Ltd.

BA (Hon) Financial Accounting; LLM (distinction); Juris Doctor
Enos is a South African entrepreneur and investment banker who is founder and CEO of Freetel Capital(Pty) Ltd, an entity which focuses on fund management, proprietary investments and transaction advise. He has advised in some of the seminal transactions in South Africa, including the first Johnnic BEE transaction, the then groundbreaking partial privatisation of Telkom SA, and equally groundbreaking project financing of the first toll road to Maputo. He has served as chairman of the National Electricity Regulator and chairman of the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Unit of the SA Government. He was country head for Credit Suisse First Boston and later, head of Africa for HSBC Corporate and Investment Bank after which he established Freetel Capital. He has developed policies in ICT and drafted national laws in telecommunications and municipal finance and BEE. He has practised law in both the United States and in South Africa. He is admitted to the New York law bar, and he is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
Enos is Chairman of the JSE listed Gold Reef Resorts Group, and sits no a number of unlisted entities.

Contact: Tel: +27 11 263 7900; Email: ebanda@hixnet.co.za

Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Director of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership office in Brussels

Sandrine is the Director of the EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (EU CLG). She has over 18 years experience in European environmental, energy and fuel policy development and regulatory analysis, with a special focus on how air quality, climate change and vehicle emissions relate to clean conventional and alternative fuels.

She has been the personal advisor to several Members of the European Parliament, and advises the European Commission, Governments in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, international organizations including OPEC, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the OECD, UNEP, USAID and energy and transportation business leaders. She has published numerous articles and given presentations on sustainable energy, climate change and transport, conventional and alternative fuel quality legislation as well as on trade & environment.

She holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from l’Universite Libre de Bruxelles and a B.A. in International Relations and French from University California Davis.

Email: sandrine.dixson@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Prof. Peter Guthrie
Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University & Director of the Scott Wilson Group

Peter Guthrie is the first Professor in Engineering for Sustainable Development in the UK having held this post since 2000. A civil engineer with geotechnical specialisation by background, Peter has worked on roads in countries such as Nigeria, Lesotho, Sudan, Philippines Ethiopia, and Botswana, and on major infrastructure projects such as London 2012, Orange County Great Park (California), Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Liverpool and Manchester Airports, and major building projects. He has advised on policy matters related to waste and environment in Russia, Mauritius, Seychelles, Romania and Portugal.

Peter is Vice-Chair of DEFRA’s Scientific Advisory Council and leads the Waste Sub Group. He is also on the DECC Project Board for the Severn Tidal Power scheme. He was involved in the founding of RedR, a charity that provides engineers and other personnel to relief agencies in disasters. In recognition of this initiative he was awarded the prestigious Beacon Prize for charitable giving in 2005. He was a Trustee/Director of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) which is a student inspired organisation which seeks to help students make a contribution to the relief of poverty through improved awareness and field projects linked to research.

He was awarded the OBE in 1994. He was Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in the late 1990s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is leading the Royal Academy of Engineering initiative on capacity building in Africa.

Stef Raubenheimer
CEO of SouthSouthNorth and co-facilitator of the South African government’s Long Term Mitigation Scenarios

Stef is a qualified lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and trainer. He is currently CEO and founding director of SouthSouthNorth Group, which has played a leading role in climate change issues since 1999. In addition he facilitates various large projects, notably the South African Cabinet Mandated Long Term Mitigation Scenario Planning Project (LTMS). He has assisted in the establishment of Designated National Authorities (DNA’s) in South Africa, Ghana, Namibia and Mozambique. He has led the facilitation of projects within the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s Sustainable Communities Program, applying development facilitation technologies which he has developed over the last 15 years. He is a director of Energy Transformation cc which develops climate change projects for the private sector

Contact: Tel: +27 21 425 1464; Email: stef@southsouthnorth.org