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Full Professor and Director: Academic at the Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg

Tankiso is a Director: Academic, Full Professor, and Research Chair in 4IR at the Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg. He has previously been a Finance & Risk Executive at Anglo American (Kumba Iron Ore) and the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has participated and held various strategic board positions which includes being the Chair of Africa’s Regional Engagement Group (June 2022 to date), Vice-Chair (June 2021 to May 2022) and Member of Africa Regional Advisory Panel (Apr 2019 to May 2022) in the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants/Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the Chair of Work Stream 6-Core 4IR Technologies (September 2021 to August 2022) in the Namibia’s 4IR Task Force, the Board and Member of the Audit Committee for AB4IR NPC (Oct 2020 - March 2022), the Board Member (Dec 2020 to 30 September 2021 and Audit, Risk and Finance Committee Member for the Green Matter NPC (Oct 2019 to 30 September 2021), being the Council Member and Chair of Finance Committee in the South West Gauteng TVET College (2019-2020), the Audit and Risk Committee Member at Sedibeng TVET College (2017-2017), and the Member of Ministerial Advisory Council on Energy, South Africa’s National Department of Energy (2015-2017).

His qualifications include a Ph.D. in Finance (UCN EU Programmes), MCom in Accounting (UNISA), MSc in Financial Management (London), MA in International Relations (Leicester), Postgraduate Programme in Data Science and Business Analytics (Texas at Austin), Postgraduate Programme in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Texas at Austin), Hons BCom in Accounting (UNISA), and a BCom (UNISA). He is also a Chartered Management Accountant (CMA) holding a Fellowship in the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). In addition, he has completed leadership and technology programmes which includes a Program for Management Excellence (Gordon Institute of Business Science), the Executive Program in Artificial Intelligence (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the Executive Program in Blockchain Technologies (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the Executive Leadership Programme (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford).

Experience

  • –present
    Full Professor of Accounting and the incoming Director: Academic at the Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg

Education

  • 2014 
    UCN European Programmes, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Finance