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Chief Executive Officer: Business Leadership South Africa
Michael Spicer is the Chief Executive Officer of Business Leadership South Africa. Prior to his arrival at Business Leadership, Michael was an Executive Vice President at Anglo American plc and Executive Director of Anglo American South Africa. In his early career, he worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (Jan Smuts House) where he was Deputy Director. He remains on the Board of Anglo American South Africa in a non-executive capacity and is a Board member of Rothschild South Africa.
Mr Spicer has a wide involvement in business and public life, being Deputy Chairman of the National Business Initiative, a member of the President’s International Marketing Council, and a board member of the Business Trust. He was appointed in 2006 as an inaugural member of the Presidential International Advisory Board of Mozambique and now Chairs that body. He is also immediate past Chairman of the Council at St. John’s College, from where he matriculated before completing his BA and MA degrees in history at Rhodes University with distinction.