Ann Bernstein

Ann Bernstein heads the Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa. As independent think tank, CDE is regarded by many including the London Financial Times as South Africa’s leading policy centre for social and economic development. Bernstein was a member of the Transition Team and then the Board of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (1994 - 2001). In 2005 she was selected as a Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, Washington DC. In 2007 she joined the Board of the Brenthurst Foundation. In 2008 and in 2009 she was an invited faculty member at the World Economic Forum, Davos. Her book, "The Case for Business in Developing Economies" (Penguin, 2010) has received favourable reviews in the Economist, Financial Times and elsewhere. In March 2012 the book was awarded the annual Sir Anthony Fisher Award by the Atlas Research Foundation in Washington DC.