Abduraghman Regal

Mr Abduraghman (Manie) Regal is the Executive Director: Finance and Services at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a role he has served in since 2003.

As Executive Director: Finance and Services, he is responsible for the strategic management of finance, innovation, operations, infrastructure, and information and communication services at UWC. He is also responsible for diversifying the university’s revenue base, developing entrepreneurs and facilitating opportunities for small to medium enterprises, determining policy direction, infrastructure expansion and improvement, and risk and compliance matters.

Some of his many achievements over the years include, designing and implementing the Business Innovation Centre as well as the Centre of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and establishing a free knowledge exchange programme with the University of Missouri System. Mr Regal holds a BCompt Honours degree from Unisa and a BCom Accounting degree from UWC.

In 2010 he successfully completed the year-long American Council on Education Fellows Program in the USA, a leadership development programme for prospective Vice-Chancellors. Thanks to this programme, he was able to spend time at institutions like the University of Houston, the University of New Mexico, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the University of Missouri, the University of California, San Diego, and Rutgers University, where he was able to share his knowledge and experience with his counterparts and learn from them as well.

Mr Regal has also completed a Strategic Leadership Programme at Oxford University. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and is a qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA). Before joining UWC, he worked as an Audit Manager for Ernst and Young, and as a Financial Accountant for Southern Asset Management. He has also held numerous positions in the retail and wholesale sector.

Mr Regal is very passionate about leadership development and promoting and facilitating a free-thinking environment that leads to staff development and that allows staff “time to think”. He has served on a number of boards within the public and non-governmental sectors and recently on Universities South Africa’s (USAf) Finance and Investment Committee, as Chairperson of the USAf Finance Executive forum, and as a member of its Financial Strategy Group.