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Advocate Sandra Coetzee has been appointed the Acting Head of the Independent Power Producers Office (IPPO) pending recruitment of the new Head: IPPO. The appointment is effective from 25 July 2019.   Adv. Coetzee has held the position of Head: Strategy, Combined Assurance and Risk at the IPPO since 2013.

Adv. Coetzee has many years experience in executive leadership positions in both the public and private sector and across multiple sectors, including energy, water, telecommunications and transport. She has also worked as a Managing Director at a specialist consulting firm, where she successfully delivered over 40 projects mainly in the capacity of legal, regulatory and transaction expertise.

“We are very pleased that Adv. Coetzee has accepted this position. She has a track record of cohesive multi-disciplinary team work, mentoring and capacity building and brings to the role her acute understanding and acumen for corporate governance, compliance and risk management,” says Patrick Dlamini, Chief Executive of the DBSA

Adv. Coetzee has served clients such as governments in Sub-Saharan Africa, regional multilateral organizations and international development agencies. In her various roles she has demonstrated success in the demands of multi-country regional, legal, regulatory and governance frameworks as well as sovereign requirements.

Issued by DBSA