Dr Gregory Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, established in 2005 by the Oppenheimer family to strengthen Africa´s economic performance.

Dr Mills has lectured at universities and institutions in Africa and abroad, from the Pentagon to the Peruvian and Chilean Naval Staff Colleges, is on the visiting staff of the NATO Higher Defence College in Rome, and is a Fellow of the London-based Royal Society of Arts.

From 1996-2005 he served as the National Director of SAIIA.

During 2006, based in Kabul, he served as the special adviser to the Commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Richards, and as the head of the strategic analysis `Prism Group´ of the ninth International Security Assistance Force (ISAF IX), for which role he received both NATO and UK campaign medals. During 2008 he was on secondment to the Government of Rwanda as Strategic Adviser to the President. In April 2008 he was appointed as a Commissioner on the Danish Prime Minister´s Africa Commission. During 2009, he has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for African Studies at Cambridge University, where he has written a book on the `mystery´ of economic growth and development to be published by Penguin.

In his role at the Brenthurst Foundation, he oversees a number of presidential advisory teams bringing together international expertise with African governments.

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