Prof Vivienne Lawack joined UWC on 1 April 2015 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic from NMMU, where she had served as the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law since 2008. In 2020 she was the Acting Vice-Chancellor at UWC. Prior to her time at NMMU, she served a number of years at the South African Reserve Bank in various capacities (including senior payment system analyst, senior legal consultant and legal consultant). She has published extensively and supervised a number of postgraduate students at both a Master’s and doctorate level. Her field of research is legal and regulatory frameworks pertaining to the payment system, banking system and financial markets. Professor Lawack has been the President of the SA Law Deans’ Association from 2010 to 2015.
