Catherine Duggan
Director (Dean) at University of Cape Town
Biography
University of Cape Town
Catherine Duggan is Director (Dean) of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB).
Before joining the UCT GSB she was Vice Dean and Professor of Management and Political Economy at the African Leadership University School of Business (ALUSB) in Rwanda. At ALUSB she was the founding Vice Dean and the business school's first faculty member and helped to design the school's blended MBA curriculum. She also created and taught the popular Politics, Economics, and the Context of African Business (PECAB) course and led the school's executive education programs, including the school's collaboration with INSEAD on an Africa-focused executive education program.
She was previously a professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, where she taught leadership and political economy in MBA and executive education programs for nearly a decade. At HBS she was the first woman in the school’s history to win the Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum two years in a row. She also received the Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching and was named the Berol Corporation Fellow.
Dr Duggan has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School (SBS), where she taught the Doing Business in Africa course in the MBA and EMBA as well as Africa sessions in several executive education programs. She has taught courses and sessions on leadership, political economy, and doing business in Africa at various business schools in the United States, Europe, and Africa.
Dr Duggan's academic work is on the political economy of development in Africa, with a particular focus on institutional development and financial sector regulation. She has worked on the continent for more than twenty years and gained experience in nearly two dozen African countries. She is the author of a number of case studies on African firms and countries, including cases on South Africa, Nigeria, DRC, Zimbabwe, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and others. She regularly leads strategy and leadership workshops for corporations and has advised a number of governments and public sector agencies on the continent and beyond.
She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, where she was the G.J. Lieberman Fellow for the Social Sciences, and received a B.A. with honors in Political Science from Brown University.
Videos
Alumni Reunion Weekend 2020: The UCT GSB and Doing Business in Africa - Highlights
UCT GSB Alumni Reunion Weekend 2020: The UCT GSB and Doing Business in Africa
Opening HBS Africa Business Conference 2012
#ToKigali | Skills for Africa
Catherine Duggan of Havard Business School (HBS) Professor shares her views about ALN
Africa Leadership University’s ambitious plan to create 3 million entrepreneurial leaders on track
ABC 2014: Saturday Morning Introduction - Professor Catherine Duggan, HBS
A Women led UCT' Deans' live session with alumni
Intervention de Catherine S.M. Duggan à l'Université d'été de la CGEM
Scaling businesses across Africa: Opportunities and challenges
ABC 2013 - Welcome Address - Professor Catherine Duggan
Catherine Duggan - #AfriCanDo interview at The Atlantic Dialogues 2018
Catherine S.M. Duggan à l'Université d'été de la CGEM
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