Rate My Professor Ralph Hamann

Professor Ralph Hamann is a professor and Deputy Director: Faculty and Research at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. His work centres on business sustainability, social innovation and entrepreneurship, collaborative governance, and organisational responses to complex social and environmental challenges such as climate change and food insecurity. He holds an MSc and a PhD from the University of East Anglia on corporate responsibility in the South African mining sector, following tertiary training in environmental science at UCT. Hamann previously served as Research Director at the Graduate School of Business and holds a Research Chair with the UCT African Climate and Development Initiative. He is co-founder of the South African leg of the Embedding Project and the Southern Africa Food Lab. Additional roles have included Academic Director of the Network for Business Sustainability South Africa, Chair of the Southern Africa Food Lab, and Director of the Cape Town Partnership. He serves as executive editor of the journal Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. Hamann has acted as a visiting scholar or consultant internationally, most recently as Pearson Visiting Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship at Brown University. His research addresses topics including the environmental strategy of wine firms, corporate responsibility and irresponsibility in mining, and social innovation through cross-sector collaboration.