Nozipho January-Bardill recently retired from the MTN Group as executive director, Corporate Affairs and spokesperson, and on the boards of a number of operations in the MTN footprint. Mrs January-Bardill is a former South African Ambassador to Switzerland, Lichtenstein and the Holy See, and former Deputy Director General, Human Capital Management and Head of the Foreign Service Institute in the then Department of Foreign Affairs (now DIRCO). She is currently the founder and executive director of Bardill & Associates, a consulting company focusing on strategic communications, high-level government relations and stakeholder management. Mrs January-Bardill serves on the boards of Credit Suisse Securities, Johannesburg, Multi Motion Fuels and the Health and Welfare SETA which she chairs. She was reappointed a member of the United Nations Expert Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances for a four-year period from 2012-2016 (previously from 2000-2008).