Vusi Gumede has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Development and Business Science, University of Mpumalanga (UMP).  Before joining UMP, since March 2013 Gumede was a Professor at the University of South Africa, having previously headed the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Prior to that Professor Gumede was an Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg from June 2010 to February 2013.

He has occupied various positions in the South African government, including being Special Advisor to the Minister of Public Enterprises, Economic Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry and Chief Policy Analyst in the Presidency’s erstwhile Policy Coordination and Advisory Services.  Before joining government, Professor Gumede worked as lecturer and researcher for various institutions and has held numerous fellowships, including as a Distinguished Africanist Scholar at Cornell University and Yale World Fellow at Yale University and research fellowships with the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, Centre for the Advanced Studies of African Society, Centre for the Study of African Economies and the International Policy Centre as well as an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.