Prof Pregala (Solosh) Pillay has been appointed as Vice-Dean: Social Impact and Transformation in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences from 1 October 2016.

Prof Pillay is a Professor in the School of Public Leadership and Director of the Anti-Corruption Centre for Education and Research of Stellenbosch University (ACCERUS).

Prof Stan du Plessis, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, said the portfolio of Social Impact and Transformation is of such major importance that a vice-dean position had been created. He congratulated prof Pillay and said, “We look forward to her contribution in this portfolio and in the Faculty’s leadership more generally.”

A former Director of the School of Public Administration and Development Management at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Prof Pillay has more than 20 years’ experience in teaching a diverse range of Public Administration modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.  She has also supervised and mentored a large number of Masters and Doctoral students.

As a researcher, she has published widely both nationally and internationally on contemporary issues in Public Administration, local government, service delivery, leadership and corruption, and has presented papers at national, regional and international conferences.

Prof Pillay is a Board Member of the Journal of Governance and Public Policy and Co-Chair of Working Group on Women, Diversity and Equity of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Zululand.