Dr Mbava holds a PhD: Public and Development Management; an MBA (Stellenbosch University) as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (Smith College, Massachusetts, USA). She brings a wealth of expertise, including as a member of various boards. Dr Mbava has headed monitoring and evaluation units in public entities, where she provided strategic leadership for activities related to organisational strategy development and governance. She has served as a board member at the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association. She is a Research Fellow - Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation at the Stellenbosch University School of Public Leadership. Dr Mbava has exemplary academic awards and achievements.

Prof. Sachs is an Adjunct Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), where he leads the centre’s research projects on public economics and fiscal policy. He teaches public economics and policy analysis at the Wits Schools of Economics and Finance and the Wits School of Governance. Prior to joining Wits he worked for over 25 years in public policy and political strategy in South Africa. He is a former head of the Budget Office of the National Treasury. Prior to this Mr Sachs worked for more than a decade at the headquarters of the African National Congress, where he co-ordinated economic policy development and led the party’s research agenda.

Prof Erasmus is a Professor in Financial Governance at the University of South Africa (UNISA) where he is primarily involved with research and research supervision. He is a rated researcher by the National Research Foundation and has to date published 37 articles in accredited national and international academic journals and for conference proceedings, focusing on public sector financial governance and internal auditing. Prof Erasmus was also involved in producing four industry reports - three for the National Treasury and one for the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Malijeng Ngqaleni, who has just retired from the public service after 28 years, has MSC in Agriculture Economics in Agricultural Economics from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), obtained BA Economics from university of Lesotho, she is a Maxwell Certified Leadership Team Member. She has extensive carrier in the public sector with about 2 decades in senior leadership at National Treasury.  At retirement she was Head of Intergovernmental Relations in the Treasury, responsible to coordinate fiscal and financial relations between national, provincial and local government; promotes sound provincial and municipal budgetary planning; and implement reforms in the intergovernmental fiscal systems

She has led various policy reforms and capacity building initiatives to improve the effectiveness of public infrastructure investment programmes, including the Infrastructure Delivery Improvement Programme (IDIP), design of infrastructure grants to provinces and local government, Cities Support Programme.  Prior to this, she worked at the Department of Land Affairs and lectured at the University of the North (Agricultural Economics) and the National University of Lesotho (Economics).

Ms Rockman obtained her BA Educationis (Languages) and Hons BA Languages (English) from the University of the Free State. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE – International and South African Chapters). She was a Member of the Executive Council for Finance in the Free State from 2013 to 2019. Prior to that she served as the Director General of the Free State Province (2011 - 2013), the Head: Monitoring and Evaluation (FS Premier’s Office, 2009 – 2011) and the Secretary to the Free State Legislature (1994 to 2009). She served as the regional election administrator of the ANC Southern Free State region and participated in a training programme focusing on parliamentary management and administration facilitated by the ANC in Zimbabwe, Canada, and South Africa in preparation for the 1994 general elections.

Mr Kholwane has an LLB degree from the University of South Africa, and an MA ICT Policy and Regulation from the University of the Witwatersrand. He also has the following educational qualifications: Nursing diploma from the Mpumalanga Nursing College, advanced diploma in Human Resources; and advanced diploma in economic policy from the University of Western Cape, Advance Diploma on Research and Policy form Rhodes University, Industrial Policy and Research for leaders from the University of Johannesburg’s School of Leadership, and is currently studying for a post-graduate honours in economics for public policy and African studies.