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Meet the Participants (Continued)Dr Azar JammineDr Jammine matriculated at Pretoria Boys’ High School and completed a B Sc Honours in MathematicalStatistics at the University of the Witwatersrand. He represented Wits and Transvaal Under 20 atrugby. During the period 1970 - 75 he was employed as an Investment Analyst at Senbank andsubsequently at Stockbrokers Martin & Co, now JP Morgan, during which time he completed a BAHonours in Economics, Cum Laude, part-time at Wits. In 1976 Dr Jammine completed his MSc inEconomics at the London School of Economics, followed by his PhD at the London Business Schoolafter which he was awarded a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Business Strategy of the School. To payhis way whilst working on his PhD, he used his knowledge of six languages to conduct numerous international businessconsultancy projects in Europe, North America and the Far East, covering a wide variety of industries. Dr Jammine returnedto South Africa in December 1985 to take up the position of Director and Chief Economist at Econometrix (Pty) Limited.Dr Jammine has published a number of articles in international strategic management journals and is co-author of“McGregor’s Economic Alternatives”, “Trends Transforming South Africa” and “Mindset for the New Generation on SouthAfrica”, all published by Juta’s. His contribution to McGregor’s Economic Alternatives was used by the ANC as a setworkin the organisation’s internal training programme prior to 1994. Dr Jammine has presented papers on the South AfricanEconomy at conferences in Washington, New York, London, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Paris, Phuket and Bahrain. Dr Jammine is aNon-executive Director of Federated Employers Mutual, Netcare, GHG (in the UK), York Timbers and Iron Fireman (Pty)Ltd. He is a member of the Board and the Finance Committee of St Mary’s School, Waverly and a member and HonoraryTreasurer of the General Council of the Independent Schools Association of South Africa (ISASA). He is also a member ofthe National Advisory Council on Innovation and has recently been appointed to the Mobile Library Advisory Panel of theSouth African Primary Education Support Initiative (SAPESI).Dr Jammine has conducted approximately 3500 presentations to leading client corporations and other institutions as wellas at conferences dealing with the local and international economic environment.Ms Zingiswa Losi: Second Deputy President - Congress of South African TradeUnions (COSATU)Activist, soldier, worker and leader, Zingiswa Losi grew up in a family of activists, prompting her tobecome politically aware at the age of 10 when her two brothers went into exile. She cut her teethon politics in the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) while still at school and also servedin the ANC Youth League structures in the Eastern Cape.Losi trained as a soldier and served in the South African Defence Force for three years. After resigning from the army, shewas employed by Ford, in Port Elizabeth in 2002 as an operator in the engine components and assembly division. She laterbecame a quality inspector. In the same year, Losi became a National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)shop steward at the plant. She also served on various NUMSA committees such as Finance and Education in the EasternCape region.As a senior leader of COSATU, Losi is acutely aware of the challenges facing the organisation. Her focus is on buildinga strong federation, with shop stewards and leaders who are clear about COSATU’s mandate. She believes that strongbranches and affiliates are needed to achieve this and women are needed to swell the ranks of the federation’s leadership,not for the purposes of achieving gender equity, but for the transformation of the broader society.Losi has a passion for drawing, something that now is going to take a back seat as she immerses herself in the federation’swork. Apart from drawing, she enjoys spending quality time with her family.17