Covid-19 Management and Responses: Lessons Learnt for the Future

René Pellissier is Professor of Research and Innovation and works as a strategist, researcher and systems engineer in the international arena based on her extensive international experience at universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and across Africa. She is a futurist and consultant specialising in the world of future work based on the evolution of technology and the resultant societal changes and needs. She heads the Higher Education Leadership Development (HELD) activities at the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC, South Africa), which includes the design and management of management capacity development activities for the four CHEC universities, i.e. the (new) Creating the Executive-Edge senior leadership development programme, the Creating the Leading-Edge management capacity development programme, the CHEC Critical Conversations and, coming 2023, CHEC Master classes. She heads an international Climate Change and Sustainable Development project for South African Development Community (SADC). She holds an MSc in Mathematical Statistics, an MBA, and a PhD in Systems Engineering.