Neeran Naidoo, CEO and Partner of  Hewers. Neeran is a specialist crisis communication and reputation risk management consultant. He has extensive experience working in leadership roles in the public, NGO and private sectors. He spent 8 years at Woolworths SA as head of strategic communications for the group, protecting the reputation of South Africa’s celebrated retail brand. More recently, Neeran was Director of Communications at the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Special Advisor to the Speaker of the National Assembly during Mandela’s presidency. Neeran currently serves on the Board of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. He was one of the founding members of the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change at the Graduate School of Business (UCT). Neeran has an MA from the Centre for Mass Communications Research at the University of Leicester, UK