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Christian Johl
Biography
Personal summary
Listener; Strategic thinker; Innovator
Education highlights
I hold a National Higher Certificate for Technicians from Pretoria Technikon, a diploma in Datametrics from Unisa, Programme in Enterprise Management from Stellenbosch University and an MBA from the Netherlands Business School as well as a PhD inIT governance at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Career highlights
Johl’s career started in 1976 as an engineering assistant at Transnet’s Signals and Telecommunications division. He progressed through Transnet, leaving the company in 1997 to join Border Technikon (WSU) as its Information and Communication Technology director. Johl joined the University of Fort Hare in 2008 as its CIO.