IIG Insights Session

Creating Jobs and Improving the Economy Through Nurturing Entrepreneurship in South Africa

COVID-19, jobs and a jittery economy are among many factors that have stoked conversations about the competencies needed to thrive in a digitally transformed reality. What skills will be needed to create jobs in this economy? How do we ensure that we nurture entrepreneurship in South Africa?

These are some of the questions, our CEO, Dr. Kershen Pillay will be asking an online panel on 9 June 22 from 11:00 – 12:00.

Join GIFS and IIG as we explore how to fast track our learners abilities to create more jobs and grow our economy one job at a time. Click here to register for this thought provoking session.

We believe key industry players, subject experts and thought leaders must lead conversations like these to drive awareness and action. The respected leaders who will participate as part of the panel for the session are listed below:



Christelle Colman

CEO: Ami Underwriting Managers for Constantia Insurance.

An insurance entrepreneur who has a proven track record in building sustainable specialist insurance businesses. Christelle founded Thatch Risk Acceptances in 1998, reinvented MUA as a fully-fledged personal lines underwriter from a previously specialist motor underwriter in 2005 and founded Elite Risk Acceptances in 2019.

Vani Moodley

CEO: Vani Moodley & Associates (Pty) Ltd

Vani Moodley is the Chief Executive at Vani Moodley & Associates (Pty) Ltd, a global Entrepreneurship, Management, Leadership and Employee Wellness training, coaching and development company. Vani represented the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry in her capacity as Vice President at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Malta. Vani is currently authoring a book on Women Leadership for publication in the month of August 2022. The book captures an anthology of experiences of women leaders and entrepreneurs around the world. Vani is currently serving as a Member of the UKZN Extended Learning Advisory Board, Member of the DUT Entrepreneurship and Management Advisory Board and a Director of the Global Institute for Entrepreneurship and Ethics.



Dr Kershen Pillay

CEO of the Graduate Institute of Financial Sciences (GIFS)

Dr Kershen Pillay, CEO of the Graduate Institute of Financial Sciences, is regarded a foremost thought-leader within the Financial Services Sector in South Africa. He is an education trailblazer who is passionate about mobilising the power of education to create a better Africa for others to inherit.