Africore Consultancy & Research
Consultants
Dr. Denis Venter
Professional Skills
- Senior management and programme management at the non-governmental, institute level: 16 years.
- Research analysis and report writing, also as a consultant, on political (including risk analyses, elections, democracy and good governance) and international relations (including foreign policy and regional security) issues: 30 years.
- Public education (talks, lectures, seminars: 36 years), mostly on issues of democracy and good governance, foreign policy, and regional security.
- More than three decades of involvement in various academically orientated professional societies and community-based associations, in many at the governing level (board, council, committee).
- Summary: Excellent writing and editorial skills; extremely well-developed organisational (meetings, seminars, workshops, conferences) and general administrative skills.
Fellowships
- August 2001 -- Guest Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
- September & October 1998 -- Guest Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- January & February 1998 -- Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India
- October & November 1996 -- Visiting Research Fellow, Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, The Netherlands
- April & May 1994, and October & November 1991 -- Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France