Andre Keet
André currently holds the Research Chair for Critical Studies in Higher
Education Transformation and is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for
Engagement and Transformation at Nelson Mandela University. He is a
former Visiting Professor at the Centre for Race, Education and
Decoloniality, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK
and the 2018 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights
at the University of Connecticut.
André served as Director and Deputy Chief Executive O5cer of the South
African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and on the Commission for
Gender Equality, before joining the university sector. Since entering the
higher education :eld, André has held professorial positions at the
universities of Pretoria, Fort Hare and Free State. He has been serving as
transformation advisor and practitioner in various capacities in the sector.
Andre’s research and post-graduate supervision focus on radical
approaches to the study of higher education, such as critical and
abolitionist university studies.