Berkley Center

Dr. Mamphela A. Ramphele is currently Chairperson of Circle Capital Ventures (Pty) Limited, Non-Executive Director of Gold Fields, Chairman of the South African Technology and Innovation Agency, and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. She served as Managing Director of the World Bank’s Human Development Network from May 2000 to July 2004. She began her career as a student activist in the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s, and then worked as a medical doctor, civil rights leader, community development worker, academic researcher, and university administrator. Joining the University of Cape Town as a Research Fellow in 1986, she was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor five years later, and then Vice Chancellor, the first black woman to hold this position at a South African university. Dr. Ramphele qualified as a Medical Doctor at the University of Natal in 1972 and holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town.