SMME BREAKFAST @
CENTRAL LIBRARY
17
JANUARY 2012
MY
ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY AND MY ROLE IN THE CITY'S ECONOMIC,
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPATIAL PLANNING PORTFOLIO
by
COUNCILLOR
GARETH BLOOR
Date: Thursday 17
January 2013
Time: 7:15am-9:00am
Venue: Seminar Room,
Central LIbrary, Old Drill Hall, Parade Street, Cape Town
Cost: R15:00
The light stand-up networking breakfast is sponsored by
FOCAL(Friends of Central LIbrary)
Lucky Draw sponsored by YOUR BUSINESS MAGAZINE
More about Cllr Gareth
Bloor........
Policy
Chair & City Council member, Cape Town
City
of Cape Town Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning Portfolio
Garreth
Bloor is an elected public representative and chairperson of the economic,
environment and spatial planning portfolio committee in the City of Cape
Town, His fiduciary duties include policy, strategy and oversight
on annual budget of half a billion rand.
He
was a member of the 2012 Regional Leaders Forum in Brazil this year working on
bilateral relations with Premier Helen Zille and various governments.
Bloor has undergrad and graduate
degrees form UCT, where he is currently a member of the university council
and is a former Student
Representative Council Vice-President. He has participated in programs at
Princeton University, Oxford and Cambridge and is the youngest ever elected
member of the prestigious Mont Pelerin Society. He is a board member of the
Cape Town Partnership and the Sable Accelerator Network in California and has
experience in the IT start-up sector, consulting and micro-finance.
Bloor
is a prolific writer and international speaker, with work appearing across over
two dozen publications and academic journals, including the Journal of
Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Wits Business Journal and the African
Yearbook of Rhetoric. In 2008 he received a Culture of Enterprise Award from
former US Attorney General Edwin Meese III for his research into “enterprise
and a humane economy” and a separate award from the Cape Town Press Club for
over 500 published articles as a student journalist and blogger.
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