Tami Sokutu

Biographical Information
"Tami is an Executive Director at African Bank Investments Limites (ABIL) and African Bank Limites (ABL). He has been with African Bank Investment for eight years in different roles including Chief Operations Officer and Managing Director: Retail Lending including responsibility for overall Transformation. Prior to ﻿﻿﻿joining ABIL, Tami was in Government occupying various senior positions at both National and Provicial level for a period of just under eight years. His last position in Government was as Director-General of Public Works for a three-year contract which ended in September 2002 when he joined ABIL.

"Tami has an M.Sc. degree in Advanced Plant Systematics (UCT), Honours degree in Botany (UWC). He spent three years as an academic lecturing at the University of Transkei before joining government. Tami was appointed as SANBI Board Chairperson on 1 December 2007 to date and his last second term expires 30 November 2014. In his role as Chairperson of SANBI, Tami has to provide leadership on issues of Transformation for SANBI in support of the CEO."

Affiliations

 * Chair, South African National Biodiversity Institute