Dr Soraya Beukes
Chairperson
Dr Soraya Beukes is a motivated and inspirational human rights lawyer and social justice activist. Her work focuses on how corruption impacts on socioeconomic rights. She currently lectures at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and is affiliated to the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) at UWC where she lectures community engagement programmes.
Her research career is enriched through her multiple Erasmus Mundus research scholarships where she earned mobility to University Libre Brussels, reading her LLD in public law, and also gained a postdoctoral fellowship at University Rey Juan Carlos Madrid.