David Kaplan

International Science Council (ISC) – Kaplan is an economist and taught at the University of Cape Town for more than 38 years. He held positions in the South African government, including: Chief economist of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Provincial Government of the Western Cape. He served on the Presidential Commission to Investigate the Development of a Comprehensive Labour Market Policy and on the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) and is a former board member of the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA). He is Senior Research Specialist at the International Science Council in Paris.