Alexandra Watson

Alexandra is an emeritus professor of the University of Cape Town, having retired in 2018 after decades of teaching postgraduate financial reporting. She was appointed as Chairperson of Coronation’s Board of Directors in 2021, prior to which she served as the lead independent non-executive director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. She is a former Chairperson of the Accounting Practices Committee, the technical accounting committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, and chairs the Financial Reporting Investigations Panel (an advisory panel of financial reporting experts formed by a joint venture of the JSE and SAICA). In April 2018, Alexandra was appointed as an independent director of Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. In July 2021, she was appointed as a non-independent non-executive director of Petra Diamonds Limited.

She is a board member of WWF-SA and is a previous Vice Chairperson of the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative, an Amsterdam-based organisation promoting understanding and communication of sustainability issues. She is a member of EY’s adjudicating panel of Excellence in Integrated Reporting awards.