Bridges China Dialogue

Director, China Africa Network
Asia Corporate Network
Centre for Business & Academic Research
Gordon Institute of Business Science
University of Pretoria

Martyn is a Senior Lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria, South Africa where he heads the Asia Business Centre and lectures on MBA, Executive and Company-Specific programs.

Dr Martyn Davies is Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Advisory (Pty) Ltd, South Africa’s leading research and strategy-consulting firm that specialises in emerging markets. He has provided business strategy solutions on behalf of listed and multinational clients in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. Martyn is the number one ranked analyst in South Africa in the “Other African Economies & Markets” category as awarded by the Financial Mail in its Annual Analysts of the Year awards in 2007.

Martyn was the Executive Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) at Stellenbosch University that was established under the South Africa – China Bi national Commission at Vice President level. The CCS is the first academic institution dedicated to the study of China in the African continent. He is also a part-time faculty member at the University of Stellenbosch Business School.