Management and leadership positions

1. Vista University (Mamelodi Campus), South Africa (1996 – 2000) :
  • Member of the University Senate (1999)
  • Programme Co-ordinator of the Science Faculty (1999-2000)
  • University representative for Science in COLISA
  • Sub-Head of the Mathematics Department (1997-1999)
2. University of Pretoria, South Africa (from 2000) :  
  • Permanent member of the Faculty Appointments Selection Committee Research Co-coordinator of the School of Mathematical Sciences (1 Jan 2001 – 31 December 2004)
  • Member of the Senior Appointments  (Academic) Committee of Council  from 1 May 2004- 31 May 2013
  • Acting Head of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from 1 May -30 September  2004
  • Head of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from 1 October 2004- 31 July 2013. This department is large: 60 academic staff.
  • Chairperson of the School of Mathematical Sciences (consisting of the Department of Actuarial Science, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Department of Statistics) from 1 January 2005 – 30 November 2009
  • Member of the Exceptional Achiever (Academic) Awards Committee in 2011.
  • Senate Representative  on the Institutional Forum 2011-2019
  • Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences from 15 March 2015-30 September 2019. This faculty is the most large and diverse of its kind in the African continent: 290 academic staff and 7000 students including 2700 postgraduate students.
  • Initiator of the MOU for partnership between the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (UP) and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (University of Dschang, Cameroon). 
3. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (from 2022):
  • Initiator and Coordinator of the weekly Modelling, Computational and Applied Mathematics (MOCAM) Seminar of the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics 
  • Initiator of the MOU for partnership between the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (Wits), the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (University of Dschang, Cameroon), and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (University of Kinshasa, DR Congo). 

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