Dr Amanda Filtane

Amanda Filtane is a lecturer at the Department of Construction Economics & Management, specialising in Construction Management. She is currently pursuing her PhD studies in Construction Business Management with a special focus on Business Models. Before joining academia, Amanda worked in the industry between 2007 – 2016; under both private sector (General Construction) and public sector (Rural Infrastructure Development) across South Africa. Amanda is passionate about innovative, sustainable technologies and methodologies that improve the efficiencies and effectiveness of the Construction Sector and has delivered conference papers within South African and abroad. She is a director of multiple non-profit organisations with objectives ranging from education, entrepreneurship and general township, women and rural development initiatives.