Professor Monica Ferreira

Monica Ferreira, Honoris Causa PhD (NWU), DPhil (UP), MA (Unisa), serves as Honorary President of ILCSA. She founded ILCSA in 2005 and served as its president until 2015. She previously served as a Co-President of the ILC Global Alliance, with the late Baroness Sally Greengross at ILC UK. Now retired, Professor Ferreira was the director of The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa (2001-2016) and prior to that, the founding director of the HSRC Centre for Gerontology (1991-2000), both at UCT. (The Centre for Gerontology was incorporated in the IAA).) She was the founding editor of the Southern African Journal of Gerontology (1992-2001), and among numerous activities has acted as a consultant on ageing to entities within the United Nations system and the African Union.

E-mail: monicaferr@mweb.co.za

Professor Sebastiana Kalula

Co-Director of ILCSA, Sebastiana Zimba Kalula, PhD (UCT), MPhil (Epidemiology), MMed (UCT), is a retired specialist physician in Geriatric Medicine at UCT and Groote Schuur Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK). She is the director of the Institute of Ageing in Africa, where she manages a focused and expanding research programme , and she directs ILCSA’s research, policy and advocacy programmes. Her current research interests include cognitive and physical functioning, falls, HIV and ageing, and quality and safety in health care for older adults. She is a member of the Long-term Care Committee of the ILC GA.

E-mail: sebastiana.kalula@uct.ac.za

Professor Jaco Hoffman, DPhil (Oxon)

Co-Director of ILCSA, Jaco Hoffman (DPhil, Oxon), is Professor of Socio-Gerontology in the Optentia Research Unit at NWU, where he leads the Ageing and Generational Dynamics in Africa (AGenDA) programme. He is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, where he co-ordinates the African Research Network on Ageing (AFRAN). He is an Honorary Professor in the Institute of Ageing in Africa at UCT, a Past President of the South African Gerontological Association (SAGA); and a founding member of the South African Older Persons Forum. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Ageing (IFA). He is a member of the International and Membership Committees of the ILC GA.

E-mail: Jaco.Hoffman@nwu.ac.za

Doctor Rayne Stroebel

Executive Member of ILCSA, Rayne Stroebel, DPhil, MA (Dementia Studies), University of Stirling, Scotland, is the Managing Director of GERATEC (Gerontological Research, Training, Education and Care), an organisation headquartered in Cape Town and operated nationally since 1996. GERATEC provides services and support to the long-term care sector, and forges the development of integrated community and household care models. He is the South African Regional Co-ordinator of The Eden Alternative, a not-for-profit organisation.

E-mail: rstroebel@geratecza.com