Maria Ramos, Group Chief Executive, Absa Maria Ramos, Group Chief Executive of Absa and former director general of South Africa's National Treasury, will be joining us for a discussion reflecting on "what I wish I had known about the private sector when I was in government".

About Maria Ramos

Maria Ramos is the Group Chief Executive of Absa Group Ltd and the Chief Executive of Africa, Barclays. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of Barclays PLC. Prior to joining Absa in March 2009, she was the Group Chief Executive of Transnet Ltd and Director-General of the National Treasury. She was named CNBC Africa Woman Leader of the Year (2011), and was awarded the Wits Business School’s Management Excellence Award (2010). She has successively been ranked in the global Fortune annual ranking survey of the 50 most powerful women in business (most recently the only African in the list, ranked 11^th), as well as being named Sunday Times Business Times Business Leader of the Year (2005), and Businesswoman of the Year by the SA Businesswomen’s Association in 2001.  She has in the past served as a non-executive and independent director on the boards of Sanlam Ltd, Remgro Ltd and SABMiller PLC, and currently serves on the executive committee of the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council.

She has obtained an Institute of Bankers’ Diploma (CAIB), BCom from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), a BCom Honours in Economics (also from Wits) and an MSc (Economics) from the University of London. She is also a recipient of honorary doctorates from the Stellenbosch and Free State Universities.

This is an internal event for MPP students only.