Ms. Tumi Dlamini

Tumi is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa with a multi-disciplinary background in African Development, public policy, corporate law, facilitating strategic African and global partnerships and corporate governance. She is currently an Advisor to the African Peer Review Mechanism, an organ of the African Union (AU) where she has the dual responsibility to lead and promote corporate governance policies and initiatives on the African continent and is also the Head of Global Relations and Partnerships. In this role, she has mobilized resources and established partnerships and international relations with various governments and private sector. She has formed partnerships with the European Union, Swedish International Agency, United Nations, German government, Norway, the USA, the African Development Bank, the UAE government, Afrexim Bank, the United Nations and others. She has spoken in several international conferences, including at the World Economic Forum, European Union, Harvard University and across the African Continent. She is currently the Chairperson of the Committee developing African Corporate Governance Principles and Guidelines for the continent, a joint project for APRM and African Development Bank. The project has produced a continental Code of Corporate Governance. At APRM, she also founded the African Network on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises, aimed to promote good governance within the SOEs in Africa. She has assessed and engaged with the private sector at the highest level in several countries, including, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Egypt, Liberia, Uganda,  South Africa, Namibia, Morocco, Kenya, Ethiopia and several others. She is a strategic thinker who has amassed knowledge of the political, economic and regulatory dynamics across key markets in Africa.

She founded the African Network on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (a joint project of AU, the World Bank and African Development Bank) and is also a Lead Convenor on the development of the African Principles and Guidelines on Corporate Governance, a joint project of APRM and the African Development Bank and the UN Global Compact. She is a strategic thinker who can drive results and has amassed knowledge of the political, economic and regulatory dynamics across key markets in Africa

Tumi has served on several boards including Business Unity South Africa, an apex South African organization representing all sectors of organized business. She is passionate about promoting access to education and served as the Chairperson of the Board of the CIDA Empowerment Fund. She is currently the President of Harvard University Association South Africa.

She holds a Masters in Public Administration and Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, a B Social Sciences Degree and a postgraduate degree in LLB from the University of Cape Town.