Prof. Francis Petersen

Prof. Francis Petersen is the Rector & Vice Chancellor of the University of the Free State in South Africa. He has formerly been Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Dean: Engineering & the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town, the Executive Head: Strategy at Anglo American Platinum, Executive Vice-President: R&D at Mintek, and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Cape Technikon (Now the Cape Peninsula University of Technology). He graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with the B.Eng. (Chem), M. Eng (Metal) and Ph.D. (Eng) degrees. As Executive Head: Strategy, he was a member of the Executive Management of Anglo-American Platinum Limited.