University of Cape Town

Client Director at Ipsos

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Also responsible for Marketing Communications Strategy for Ipsos SA

Ipsos

Client Director

At Ipsos we are passionately curious about people, markets, brands and society. We deliver information and analysis that makes our complex world easier and faster to navigate and inspires our clients to make smarter decisions.  We believe that our work is important. Security, Simplicity, Speed and Substance applies to everything we do. Through specialization, we offer our clients a unique depth of knowledge and expertise. Learning from different experiences gives us perspective and inspires us to boldly call things into question, to be creative. By nurturing a culture of collaboration and curiosity, we attract the highest caliber of people who have the ability and desire to influence and shape the future.“Game Changers” – our tagline – summarize our ambition.

Business Development Manager

Account Manager

The UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing was established out of recognition that the rapidly changing South African consumer market is unique, bearing only a limited resemblance to consumer behavior in the rest of the world.Our primary objective is to develop and share cutting-edge, trend-based strategic insight into South African marketing. Our thinking is based on solid market research and is relevant to both the business and education sectors.  The UCT Unilever Institute was established in 1999 at the University of Cape Town as a non-profit research organisation, with the Unilever Foundation for Education and Development as a key sponsor. The UCT Unilever Institute has been recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost marketing think-tanks over the past 15 years and our research informs the strategies of a number of leading companies.

Project Manager

EASD is a private non-profit corporation working to promote environmentally sustainable development in Africa and globally. It provides information products, training and facilitation services and conducts projects in support of sustainable development in Africa and globally.Our focus areas are:state of the environment reporting,regional and national environmental strategies and programmes,development of environmental information and knowledge management systems, technology for sustainable development, project and programme evaluation and organisational development (design of environmental organisations),Poverty alleviation and sustainable development models and process facilitation.

Environmental and Sustainable Development Programme

Responsible for coordinating contributions from across the globe for a publication in preparation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.

Samantha Payne