Jay Naidoo

Jay Naidoo is chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, and chairman of the J&J Group, a diversified investment and management group based in Johannesburg. He was deeply impacted by and involved with the political situation in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Naidoo served as Minister of Reconstruction and Development in the cabinet of President Mandela, and in 1996 he became Minister of Communications. At the end of his term in South Africa's first democratic parliament, he left politics for the private sector to promote the expansion of an information backbone for the continent's shared vision of an African Renaissance.