Catherine Wijnberg is the Director and Founder of the Fetola Foundation (www.fetola.co.za) a fast-growing economic development agency and not-for-profit organisation made up of respected development practitioners across Southern Africa.

Catherine has owned and operated small businesses in three countries across five different sectors, and has successfully conceptualised, designed and implemented several award-winning community and business development programmes, including the Old Mutual Legends programme.

Her most recent initiative, the Graduate Asset Placement (GAP) Programme, seeks to place 25 000 unemployed graduates into internships over the next three years, creating in the region of 8000 permanent jobs.

To contact Catherine please email her on or call +27 (0) 21 701 7466.