Alex Watson

Alex is the Richard Sonnenberg Professor of Accounting at the College of Accounting (UCT) and is the teaching and learning coordinator for the college. She specialises in framework-based teaching, and is the editor of a number of financial reporting textbooks. She is a member of IASCF’s Education Advisory Group and is a board member of the Global Reporting Initiative Professor Watson currently serves as an independent director and audit committee chair of a listed company.

Education

• B Com Hons University of Cape Town
• Herschel Girls (1969 — 1973)

Companies

• Chairman of the Board Coronation Fund Managers (2021)
• Non Executive Director Petra Diamonds (2021)
• Chairperson Financial Reporting Investigtaions Panel (FRIP) (2020)
• Director WWF South Africa (2019)
• Independent Director Steinhoff International (2018)
• Professor Emeritus Independent (2018)
• Professor Emeritus University of Cape Town (1982)
• Richard Sonnenberg Professor of Accounting University of Cape Town (2013 — 2020)
• Director Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) (2015 — 2019)