Stellenbosch Business School appoints Professor Chris van der Hoven as senior director

Stellenbosch Business School has appointed Professor Chris van der Hoven as its new senior director.

With decades of international experience in academic leadership and industry collaboration, Prof van der Hoven is well-placed to guide the Business School into a new era focused on transformative educational outcomes.

His distinguished career spans leadership roles at top institutions worldwide. In the United Kingdom Prof van der Hoven spent 12 years at Cranfield School of Management and a number of years as senior fellow at Cambridge University. While he was based in the UK, he held visiting academic positions at ten leading universities, including the Stockholm School of Economics, Mannheim Business School and Nanjing University. He was recruited back to South Africa and served as the Academic Director at Wits Business School until 2017.