ALEXANDRA WATSON

She served as a professor in the College of Accounting at the University of Cape Town until March 2018, where her area of expertise was financial reporting and other forms of corporate reporting. She is also a former chairman of the Accounting Practices Committee (Technical Accounting Committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants) and is a member of the South African Financial Reporting Investigations Panel.

Prof. Watson has been a non-executive director of Coronation Fund Managers Limited since May 2008 and chair of its audit and risk committee, as well as lead independent non-executive director since October 2017. She is also a board member and vice chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative, an Amsterdam-based organisation promoting understanding and communication of sustainability issues.

Prof. Watson was appointed to the supervisory board on 20 April 2018. She is a member of the audit and risk committee, the human resources and remuneration committee and the nomination committee.