Professor Mzamo P Mangaliso

Mzamo P. Mangaliso, PhD, is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Foundation, Pretoria, South Africa. Previously, he was a tenured professor at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, MA, where he has been teaching since 1988.

Born in South Africa, he holds a BSc in Chemistry and Physics, and a Graduate Diploma in Math and Science both from the University of Fort Hare (SA); an MBA from Cornell University; and a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Prior to being a university professor, Professor Mangaliso’s career included a stint as a Metallurgical Research Analyst at the Harmony Gold Mines in South Africa; another as a bank teller in Johannesburg; and several years as Production Manager at Unilever in Durban, South Africa.
From 1985 to 1990 Professor Mangaliso served as Co-Director of the South African Student Orientation Programme at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. The programme was administered by the Institute of International Education and funded by a grant from the United States Agency for International Development.

At the University of Massachusetts, Professor Mangaliso has served as MBA Programme Director (1990-92), as a Faculty Senator (1996-99), and lately as coordinator of the PhD programme in Strategic Management. In addition, Professor Mangaliso was President and Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management in 2001-02. He has served as Director of the International Conference on Managing in a Global Economy.

Professor Mangaliso’s academic distinctions include being the University of Massachusetts’ 1999 Distinguished Teacher Award winner, and being a nominee for the Carnegie Foundation-sponsored US Professor of the Year Award in 2000.