Fagmeedah Petersen-Cook

Fagmeedah is an actuary with twenty-one years of technical experience in the pensions and investments industry. Until 2015 she was the chief investment officer at the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, where she was responsible for the investment of R120 billion. Fagmeedah was first appointed by former finance minister, Trevor Manuel, to the board of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), to bring her expertise to the oversight of the investment activity of the PIC. In 2012 she was appointed as member of the clean-up board of Telkom, where she chaired the investment committee while she was the acting CIO of Eskom Pension Fund. She is also an independent director of ABSA Financial Services and Medical Specialist Holdings, as well as chairman of the Bankmed audit committee, among others. As an actuary, she brings enterprise risk management skills and multi-generational planning techniques to the boardroom. Fagmeedah, an avid cricket enthusiast, is the lead independent director of the Western Province Cricket Association