{"id":1735,"date":"2021-12-31T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T10:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/?page_id=1735"},"modified":"2022-01-08T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:03:05","slug":"wessels_mirna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wessels_mirna\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirna Wessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section  class=\"content-section full-width with-col cover pt-70 pb-70 pt-xs-50 pb-xs-50 rella-no-margin    content-section-69e69c776f53c\"><div class=\"row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-12\">[vc_empty_space]<section  class=\"content-section full-width with-col cover rella-no-padding rella-no-margin    content-section-69e69c776f9fc\"><div class=\"row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-1\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-3\"><div  class=\"full-block align-left\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MW_photo.jpeg\"  width=\"2698\" height=\"2960\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-6\"><h1  class=\" special-text  custom-font-properties-69e69c77704ee\">Mirna Wessels<\/h1><h2  class=\"section-title  mb-70 mb-sm-40 font-alt align-left\" >Advisory Board<\/h2>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;]<div class=\"section-text text-block \" ><p>Mirna Wessels is Chief Executive Officer at Spier Arts Trust &#8211; an exemplar social enterprise focusing on shared value.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>She has worked in various leadership roles, namely Director of Operations at Synovate Market Research (2000-2009) and Managing Director at Conexus CRM, now a division of Ipsos (2009-2011).<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>After obtaining an MBA at University of Cape Town (2008\/2009), she consciously decided to pursue new personal goals.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of South Africa\u2019s politics of poverty and inequality, Mirna&#8217;s interest lies in contributing to social transformation through art and education.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>She was elected to the board of Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) in 2018 and currently acts as chairperson of their Audit and Risk Committee.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>She is on the board of the AVA Gallery (the oldest not-for-profit gallery in Cape Town) and serves as board member at Kuyasa Foundation NPC since 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-2\"><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisory Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1735\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}