COUNCIL MEMBERS

    Bernedette Muthien

    Council Member

    For over twenty years, Bernedette Muthien has held executive and senior management positions in academia, civil society, and the public sector in South Africa and internationally. She is an accomplished facilitator, researcher, and poet who designs, implements, and evaluates projects for a wide range of institutions at local and global levels. 

    Based in Cape Town, she is a Research Fellow in the Office of International Affairs at the University of the Free State and is currently serving a second term on the Council of Iziko Museums of South Africa. In this role, she serves on the Audit and Risk Committee and chairs the Core Functions and Support Services Committee.

    Ms Muthien previously served part-time on South Africa’s Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (2014–2019), where she was responsible for parliamentary liaison, research and policy development, and public education. She also held the position of Deputy Director-General: Social Transformation and Economic Empowerment in the Presidency (2015–2016), serving within the high-level Economic Cluster and its Executive Project Management Unit.

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