Business Talk – GIFS CEO Kershen Pillay on accountability and corporate governance in education
In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Kershen Pillay unpacks the GIFS-INSETA story and the importance of accountability in South Africa’s education sector.
Pillay is the CEO of the Graduate Institute of Financial Sciences (GIFS) and is a leading voice in the education sector.
Thanks to his dedication to improving the education sector and his work to build GIFS into the financial powerhouse it is today, he has received multiple industry awards.
He was named a TYI Top 100 Young African Innovator and won the inaugural Future of Work Visionary Award at the Future of Leadership Summit.
Pillay also received a Certificate of Recognition for Moral Courage from the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA).
Along with this, he assumed his position at GIFS at only 27 years old and oversaw the organisation’s rebrand from Masifunde Training Centre to GIFS in 2019.
The interview
In this Business Talk interview, Pillay outlines what good corporate governance entails and the responsibility of leaders to speak up.
Pillay unpacks the GIFS-INSETA story and the governance and accountability concerns that prompted them to take a stand.
He also touches on INSETA’s CEO’s recent announcement and shares his outlook on this development, given the concerns raised by GIFS.
Pillay concludes the interview by discussing what needs to change to strengthen governance in South Africa’s skills development system and the key lessons to take from the GIFS-INSETA story.
Watch the interview with Kershen Pillay below.
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