PROFESSIONALS

Simon Barber is a marketing consultant and business development expert, serving as the US representative of South Africa's International Marketing Council, a public-private partnership launched at the request of President Thabo Mbeki to promote South Africa as the world's leading and most admired emerging market. He has been Washington correspondent for South Africa’s premier daily newspaper, Business Day, and is one of South Africa’s best-known financial and political journalists and commentators. His experience includes policy and business development on US-Africa issues, trade and investment, intellectual property and other trade matters and the workings of the US and southern African regulatory and policy-making processes.