David Lewis

David Lewis is the Executive director of Corruption Watch in South Africa. He received his training in economics from the universities of the Witwatersrand and Cape Town. Lewis participated in the drafting of the Competition Act in South Africa. With the promulgation of the Competition Act in September 1999, he was appointed chairperson of the Competition Tribunal, a position he held for a decade. Lewis was a founding member of the International Competition Network. He was deputy chairman of the Industrial Development Corporation’s board from 2002 to 2008, and chairman of its human resources committee. In 2009, Lewis was appointed an extraordinary professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. A year later, UCT awarded him an honorary doctorate in economic sciences. Lewis is also an author and his book Thieves at the Dinner Table : Enforcing the Competition Act – a Personal Accoun was published in 2012.