| Let integrity lead.
| Let integrity lead.
Gareth Morgan is the Executive Director of Future Planning and Resilience in the City of Cape Town. Gareth leads a portfolio of functions that help the organisation plan for the future and be prepared for shocks and stresses. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Resilience. He led the development of the first Cape Town Resilience Strategy and held leadership positions in the portfolio responses of the City to both the recent regional drought and the current COVID-19 pandemic. He was a senior member of the team that won the 2020 Global Public Service Award in the COVID Rapid Responders category from the Apolitical organisation.
Early in his career, he was a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly (NA) for nine years, serving predominantly on the Portfolio Committee of Environmental Affairs. Whilst in Parliament, he was the Parliamentary Counsellor to the Leader of the Opposition for one year, and for two years, he was a whip of the NA. His legislative interests included energy, water and the green economy.
He is an Archbishop Tutu Fellow and was a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, which took him to Oxford University, where he read for an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management. He is also a graduate of the University of Natal, where he read for B.Comm and Honours in Political Science. In 2020, he was a finalist in the Mail & Guardian’s Greening the Future Awards.
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