Dr Pierre Voges

CEO: Atlantis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Company

Dr Pierre Voges is presently the CEO: Atlantis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Company, a GreenTech, catalytic infrastructure, state-owned enterprise of the Western Cape Government. His qualifications include a B Comm, Accountancy and Economics (University of Stellenbosch), Honours in Economics, University of Stellenbosch), M Comm (Economics), University of Stellenbosch and a Doctorate in Urban Planning and Economics, University of Pretoria. He is a Member of the South African Planning Institute (SAPI).

Pierre is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Mandela Bay Development Agency responsible for urban renewal through infrastructure projects in Port Elizabeth. Prior to his present position, Pierre was a Director with Grant Thornton International Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors in Cape Town where he worked on infrastructure projects in the Middle East (Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar) and gained extensive experience in managing the finance of infrastructure projects in terms of both public and private sector finance. During this period, he gained experience in public sector finance, project feasibility studies, urban planning and infrastructure project implementation to ensure sustainable urban development. Initially, his work at Grant Thornton was based in the tourism sector, but it later expanded to include government related work, such as public/private partnerships and urban planning ensuring sustainable urban development projects.

From 1994 to 1996, Pierre was an Advisor (RDP Office) in the Office of former South African President Nelson Mandela, where he dealt specifically with development aid finance and public finance and the utilization of this type of finance in infrastructure development. Prior to this position, he was in the South African Foreign Service, serving inter alia in The Hague, The Netherlands and Berlin, Germany.

Over the years Pierre developed an energetic and unconventional style of thinking when it comes to change management and institutional turnaround strategies in an urban and infrastructure development environment.

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