We welcome Jakkie Cilliers who will join us online to discuss with us the futures of Africa, as part of the Africa’s Potential Series.
Jakkie Cilliers is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Head of the African Futures and Innovation team at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria. Jakkie Cilliers co-founded the ISS in 1990 and was the executive director until 2015. He played an important role in the transformation of the South African armed forces and the institution of civilian control over the military in the period 1990 to 1996. He is an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre of Human Rights and the Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria. He serves on the advisory boards of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Center on International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, New York. Jakkie Cilliers is also on the World Economic Forum’s Think Tank Leaders Forum. He has a B. Mil (B.A.) from the University of Stellenbosch and a Hons. B.A., M.A. (cum laude) and DLitt et Phil from the University of South Africa (UNISA).
The event is part of the Africa's Potential series, carried out at the School of Transnational Governance, as part of the Young African Leaders Programme (YALP) funded by the European Commission, and is open to the EUI community, YALP alumni and the YALP network.
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