Hendrik Du Toit

Hendrik du Toit (South African and British) is an independent non-executive director. He was appointed lead independent director of Naspers on 1 April 2020. Hendrik is chief executive officer of Ninety One (previously Investec Asset Management). Hendrik entered the asset management industry in 1988. He joined Investec in 1991 as founding member of Investec Asset Management and remained chief executive officer until he assumed the role of joint chief executive officer of the Investec Group on 1 October 2018 up to the demerger and listing of Ninety One on 16 March 2020. In 2019, Hendrik joined the Advisory Boards of the UN Business and Human Security Initiative and the Impact Investing Institute. Previously, Hendrik served as a non-executive director of the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa. He has also served on the Advisory Board of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Expert Board of HM Treasury’s Belt and Road Initiative, and as Commissioner of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, which authored the report Better Business Better World in 2017. Hendrik holds an MPhil in economics and politics of development from Cambridge University, as well as an MCom in economics from Stellenbosch University.