Clem Sunter
Clem Sunter is a prominent futurologist and bestselling author known for his significant contribution to best practice and business in South Africa. He is also an internationally acclaimed authority on management strategy, scenario planning, and corporate social responsibility. He has given presentations globally and has become an ambassador of expert knowledge for South Africa. An icon and model of mental litheness, Sunter is also helping to mobilize the private sector in the war against HIV/AIDS.
CAREER
- Sunter joined Charter Consolidated as a management trainee in 1966.
- He moved to Lusaka in Zambia in 1971 to work for Anglo American Corporation Central Africa. He was transferred in 1973 to the Head Office of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in Johannesburg.
- He spent most of his subsequent career in the Gold and Uranium Division of Anglo American, serving as its Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996.
- He was until recently Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman's Fund, which in a recent survey was rated the premier corporate social responsibility Fund in South Africa.
- He established a scenario planning function in Anglo with teams in London and Johannesburg in the early 1980s.
- He put together a presentation entitled “The World and South Africa in the 1990s” which became very popular in South Africa in the mid-1980s.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Sunter is the author of at least 17 acclaimed business books on leadership, crisis management, planning, and strategy.
- He has given scenario presentations in Europe, India, Singapore, Britain, Australia, and many African countries.
- He has lectured at the Harvard Business School in Boston and at the Central Party School in Beijing.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Sunter was voted by leading South African CEOs as the speaker who has made the most significant contribution to, and impact on, best practices and business in in South Africa.
- He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Cape Town for his work in the field of scenario planning.
- He was invited to give a scenario presentation at the Central Party School in Beijing in 2006.
- He has facilitated sessions on global warming in New Delhi and London.