Saul Nurick lectures on the undergraduate and postgraduate Property Studies programmes at the University Cape Town's Department of Construction Economics and Management. He teaches Property Financial Mathematics, Property Feasibility Analysis, Property Finance and Sustainability (Green Building). He holds a BCom, BSc(Hons) (Property Studies) and MPhil degrees from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is registered as a Chartered Surveyor with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). His research interests focus on sustainability, green building, and property finance with regards to various property stakeholders.

Louie van Schalkwyk is a senior lecturer in Property Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town. She holds LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and a PhD (Law) degree from the University of Cape Town. She in an admitted attorney, notary public and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa with seven years of experience in property conveyancing and notarial practice. Furthermore, she is a research fellow at the SARChI Research Chair: Mineral Law in Africa, hosted at the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town. Her current research interest include property law and mining law and, in particular the relationship between land use planning and mining and the role of cooperative government in this context.

Kathy Michell is a quantity surveyor and facilities manager and has been on the full time academic staff at the University of Cape Town since 1995. She has a masters degree in cost engineering from the University of Cape Town and a doctorate in urban facilities management from the University of Salford.

In addition, she lectures and co-supervises at the masters level on strategic asset and facilities management at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and assists the Centre for Higher Education Research Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University in facilitating the Strengthening Postgraduate Supervision course at Universities in South Africa. Her research focus is in corporate real estate and urban development and management.

She serves on the editorial board and is the regional editor (Africa) for the Journal of Facilities Management. She is the current President of the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession and serves as a Council Member on the Council for the Built Environment. 

Uche obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in architecture from the University of Jos, Nigeria in 1989 and 1992 respectively.  Between 1993 and 2003, he practiced as an architect with Hamada Design Consultants, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, culminating in his establishing and running the firm’s office in Abuja, where he incorporated sustainability features and passive energy systems in the high-rise office buildings which he designed and built for corporate clients in the Abuja CBD.

Uche later transited into his own practice, thereafter, building a small research-driven Private Property Development.  He later completed a Master’s Programme in Property Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and joined UCT as a full-time member of staff.  Uche’s research interests are in urban facilities management issues.  He is currently a doctoral candidate in the field of urban facilities management.

Gary Goliath is an Urban and Real Estate specialist with over 20 years of experience. He has managed public and private real estate assets for large asset owners including the Public Investment Corporation and Ninety One. 

He joined the World Bank in 2014 and focused on leveraging the private sector into urban revitalization and infrastructure projects, particularly in Europe, Central Asia, and Africa. Since 2022, Gary has been an independent advisor to the private sector, South African government agencies and departments and several international cities. His primary area of focus has been on leveraging public real estate assets to fund infrastructure, achieve city-level housing objectives, and improve socio-spatial restructuring. 

Gary holds an MPhil in Urban Infrastructure and a BSc Hons in Property from the University of Cape Town, with certificates in Data Science from MIT and Public Policy from the LSE. He is a Director for the Centre for Public Real Estate, a non-profit focused on education for public real estate officials. 

Francois Viruly is a property economist with over twenty years of experience in advising public as well as private entities. His research interests are in the fields of Urban Land Economics, Property Finance and Portfolio Management. He held the position of Chief Economist at the Chamber of Mines, Acting Head of Department in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand and in 2011 was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. He is a regular industry speaker, and delivers courses for the South African Property Owner’s Association (SAPOA). He is a past president of the African Real Estate Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor’s (RICS). He has recently been appointed onto the RICS Sub-Saharan Africa Market Advisory Panel.