Deborah Posel

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deborah.posel@uct.ac.za

Deborah Posel was the founding Director of WISER in 2000.   She was educated at the University of Witwatersrand and Nuffield College, Oxford.   She has written and published widely on aspects of South African politics and society during and beyond the apartheid years – including The Making of Apartheid (1991); Apartheid’s Genesis (1994) with Phil Bonner and Peter Delius; and Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002) with Graeme Simpson.