Kelvin Kemm

Curriculum Vitae DR KELVIN KEMM CEO: STRATEK Business Strategy Consultants, Pretoria, South Africa

Dr Kelvin Kemm is a Business Strategy Consultant and runs his own company, Stratek, based in Pretoria. It networks many varied facets of society in the interests of economic development.

He studied at the University of KwaZulu Natal where he gained degrees in mathematics and nuclear physics. On completing a PhD at the age of 26, he started work as a research and development scientist at the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa. He then moved into the management of technology and became involved in a wide variety of projects in many industrial sectors, giving him wide exposure to South Africa's technological and industrial base.

Kelvin Kemm also became involved in the development of training programmes, and he regularly lectures at a variety of institutions ranging from schools to the Defence College. He is also a part-time lecturer on the MBA programme at the Tshwane University of Technology.

Dr Kemm believes that a healthy economy needs a wide appreciation of the role of technology. As a result of this belief, he became interested in the public awareness of technology and has written over 1000 popular interest articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, internationally.

He has also regularly appeared on radio and TV programmes in South Africa and overseas and is a regular speaker at public events. He has been involved in video and film productions in the role of creator, designer, scriptwriter and presenter. TV series that he created include: Curiosity Feeds the Cat; Halley's Comet; The Environment and Packaging; and Impact.

Dr Kemm founded the environment and technology lobby group Green and Gold Forum. The Forum’s objective is to bring a scientifically accurate and balanced view of environmental issues to the public, and senior national decision-makers.

In 1994 Dr Kemm was appointed to the International Board of Advisors of the Washington DC-based environment and technology lobby group; The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. This organisation has a daily radio slot on more than 250 American radio stations.

In October 1996, Dr Kemm was honoured by being the first person from Africa to be appointed to the European Science and Environment Forum (ESEF).

An entry concerning Dr Kemm was entered into Who’s Who in the World in 2001.

Dr Kemm has written a public interest book on South African technology entitled Techtrack - A Winding Path of South African Development. He also has his own column in Engineering News, which has a readership of 240 000. In 2003 he was awarded the Lifetime Achiever’s Award in Science and Technology, by the National Science and Technology Forum. In 2005 he was a finalist in the Men’s Health magazine Best Man in South Africa Award.

He has also been active in charity projects and served in Round Table becoming Round Table Chairman in Pretoria in 1987.


 * Advisory Board, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

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