Adam Habib
| Adam Mahomed Habib | |
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| Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand | |
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Assumed office 1 June 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Loyiso Nongxa |
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| Born | 1965 Pietermaritzburg |
| Residence | Savernake, Johannesburg |
| Alma mater | University of KwaZulu-Natal (MA) Graduate School, City University of New York (Master of Philosophy), graduate School, City University of New York (Doctor of Philosophy) |
Adam Habib (born 1963) is a South African professor of political geography, and the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He officially assumed the position of Vice-Chancellor on 1 June 2013 when the term of his predecessor Loyiso Nongxa ended. He is also a former deputy vice chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.
Studying at a mix of South African and American Universities, Habib graduated as a political scientist having received his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Witwatersrand, and his MPhil and PhD from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has held academic appointments over the last decade at the Universities of Durban-Westville and KwaZulu-Natal and the Human Science Research Council. Prior to being appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Advancement at the University of Johannesburg, he served as the Executive Director of the Democracy and Governance Programme of the Human Science Research Council. Before that, he was the founding director of the Centre for Civil Society and a research professor in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Habib has served as co-editor of both the social science academic journal Transformation and the official disciplinary journal of the South African Association of Political Science, Politkon. He also sits on the editorial boards of Voluntas and the South African Labour Bulletin. He has served as an external examiner and examined Masters and Doctoral dissertations for a number of South African Universities including Durban-Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, Witwatersrand, Cape Town, and Rhodes. He has also served on a number of boards and councils including those of the University of Durban-Westville, the Durban University of Technology, the International Society for Third Sector Research, Sangonet, the Centre for Public Participation, and the Centre for Policy Studies.
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