Professor Duma Malaza has extensive leadership and senior management experience at various higher education institutions. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Higher Education South Africa, the new national HE association established in May 2005. In this position Duma provides strategic leadership to the Executive Office of HESA in advancing the organisational mission, objectives and implementation of its strategic plan. Duma was previously the Director of Quality Assurance at the University of Pretoria responsible for developing the UP?s Quality Management System and setting up its Quality Assurance Directorate. He was also Director of Strategic Planning at UCT and Acting Vice-Chancellor at the previous University of Transkei. Duma has participated in the capacity development activities of SAUVCA and the HEQC in the areas of planning and quality assurance.
He is a member of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), South African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR) and Academy of Science of South Africa.