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Tracey Henry is the CEO of Tshikululu Social Investments, a governing body member of the African Children Feeding Scheme, a governing body member of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre and winner of the "2010 CEO Most Influential Women in Business – Financial Sector." She has 25 years of experience in the corporate and development sector, with a particular focus on leveraging partnerships between government, business, and civil society that result in socio-economic transformation. Tracey was appointed chief executive officer of Tshikululu Social Investments in 2008, which is South Africa’s first outsourced corporate social investment management and advisory non-profit company. Tshikululu manages social investment programs for a number of blue-chip companies including Anglo American, De Beers, FirstRand (including FNB, WesBank and Rand Merchant Bank), Discovery, and UTi. In 1991 Tracey joined the Chamber of Mines’ Wits Centre for Human Development. During her time at the WCHD, Tracey conducted one-on-one and group counselling sessions as well as wellness training programs for employees and their dependents. In 1995 Tracey joined Anglo American SA, working in the Anglo American and De Beers Chairman’s Fund department until June 1998, when the unit was dissolved and Tshikululu was established to manage the corporate social investment programs on an outsourced basis. Tracey holds a Masters of Arts in Social Science (Clinical Social Work) from the University of Johannesburg. Tracey has peer reviewed international publications, presented at numerous local and international conferences and continues to produce thought pieces on social investment and the development sector. Tracey is a Fellow of the tenth class of the Africa Leadership Initiative – South Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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