Oliver C. Ruppel

Prof. Dr. Oliver C. Ruppel is Professor of Law at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He currently serves as the Director of the newly created Climate Change Policy and Energy Security Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa of the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), for which he has set up a regional satellite office in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in 2016. This regional office cooperates with the 14 KAS country offices in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Angola, Nigeria, Senegal, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda).

Before accepting his professorship in South Africa he established one of the worldwide 14 founding academic chairs of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Geneva (Switzerland) at the University of Namibia, Windhoek, where he had previously also served as Director of the Human Rights and Documentation Centre, a national institute established by statute under the Namibian Ministry of Justice.