An American academic, Catherine Duggan, has been appointed director of the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). Until recently, she was vice-dean for strategy and research at the African Leadership University’s business school in Rwanda.

Her appointment ends a two-year search for a successor to former director Mills Soko, who resigned in mid-2018. Since then, the school has been run by two interim directors, Kosheek Sewchurran and Hugh Corder. Duggan is due to take charge on September 1. She will be the second woman to run the GSB, after Kate Jowell, who was director from 1993 to 1999...

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