Professor Piet Naudé is an internationally respected ethics scholar and keynote speaker recognised for his deep insight into organisational integrity, governance and responsible leadership. With an academic foundation that includes an MA in Philosophy (cum laude) and a Doctoral degree in Theology from the University of Stellenbosch, he brings rare interdisciplinary depth to the fields of business ethics and public leadership.
He has served in several senior academic roles, including Professor of Ethics and Vice-Rector: Academic at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, and later as Director of the Stellenbosch University Business School (USB), one of Africa’s premier academic institutions. A National Research Foundation–rated scientist, Professor Naudé has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 100 conference papers worldwide, establishing him as a trusted authority on ethical frameworks, organisational behaviour and governance challenges.
Professor Piet Naude regularly speaks at business and civil society conferences and has done consulting work for national and international listed companies on issues of ethics and governance.
He holds an MA in Philosophy (cum laude) and a Doctoral degree in Theology from the University of Stellenbosch.
He is a Professor of Ethics and former Vice-Rector: Academic at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.
Professor Naude is a rated scientist by the National Research Foundation of South Africa and has published over 90 articles in accredited journals and presented more than 100 papers at national and international conferences.
His monograph on the Belhar confession was awarded the Andrew Murray- Desmond Tutu prize for theological-academic literature in 2011.
He is the past president of the Business Ethics Network of Africa (BEN-Africa) and also the African representative on the executive committee of ISBEE, the International Society for Business, Ethics and Economics.
Professor Piet Naude – Ethics has been writing a weekly column for The Eastern Province Herald for the last nine years. In 2011 he won the national Vodacom Journalist of the Year competition for his work as a columnist. Times Media published a collection of these columns entitled, Reading between the (head) lines, in October 2014.
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