Ethics, Politics, Inequality: New Directions

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Narnia Bohler-Muller (BJuris LLB LLM LLD) was Professor of Law at Vista University and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) before joining Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) as director of social sciences in 2011. Currently she is Divisional Executive of the Developmental Capable and Ethical State research programme at the HSRC adjunct Professor of the Nelson R Mandela School of Law University of Fort Hare and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies University of Free State. Prof. Bohler-Muller has over 100 peer reviewed journal publications and book chapters and has co-edited five books. She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court and served as presiding officer for the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Port Elizabeth. She has completed research fellowships at Griffith University's law faculty in Brisbane Australia; Birkbeck School of Law in London UK; and the BRICS Policy Centre in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Prof Bohler-Muller has represented South Africa in multilateral fora such as BRICS and has represented South Africa in the last two W20 Dialogues in Argentina and Japan. Her research interests include international and constitutional law human rights democracy governance and social justice. In 2016 she was shortlisted as one of 14 candidates for the position of Public Protector. Professor Crain Soudien is the Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). He holds a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town where he remains an emeritus professor in Education and African Studies. His publications in the areas of social difference culture education policy comparative education educational change public history and popular culture include four books four edited collections and over 200 articles reviews reports and book chapters including a 2017 publication entitled Nelson Mandela: Comparative Perspectives of his Significance for Education. He is involved in a number of local national and international social and cultural organisations and is chairperson of the Independent Examinations Board former chairperson of the District Six Museum Foundation a former president of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and has served as the chair of three Ministerial Committees of Enquiry including the Ministerial Committee on Transformation in Higher Education and the Ministerial Committee to Evaluate Textbooks for Discrimination. He is a fellow of a number of local and international academies and serves on the boards of a number of cultural heritage education and civil society structures. Vasu Reddy is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities University of Pretoria. His research focus is in human and social development particularly identity marker issues (genders sexualities HIV AIDS social justice and diversity) as well as humanities questions that address policy dimensions. He taught at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and worked as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council where he later headed the Human and Social Development research programme as Executive Director. He is a member of the editorial board of three journals: Agenda Feminist Africa and Womens Studies International Forum. He is also an editor of Transformation: Critical perspectives on Southern Africa. He received a B-3 rating from the National Research Foundation.