PERSONAL INITIATIVES - PROJECTS
Professor Raphael Tabani Mpofu is a founding Conference Chair of International Conference on Financial Services, Bi-annual conference series, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
- Introduced Writing for Publication Workshops/Retreats in the College of Economic and Management Sciences in 2010 leading to almost 2000% increase in research outputs.
- Initiated the first Post-doctoral Fellowship recruitment drive across the African Continent in the College. To date since 2011, 15 post-doctoral fellows from across the African continent have been recruited, publishing in excess of 50 accredited outputs in international journals.
- Adjunct Faculty Drive: Since 2012, he has recruited more than 40 research associates from Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Malawi and Kenya that have been appointed as University of South Africa (UNISA) research associates and contributed to the implementation of the African Union, Agenda 2063 framework.
- Graduate (Staff) Development Fellowship Programme: he successfully sourced more than R90million rands from the Department of Higher Education and Training to finance the programme through the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) grant, with more than 135 young South African graduates benefiting from the programme.
- Incubator@Unisa: Pioneered the setting up of an incubator at University of South Africa (UNISA) in collaboration with Georgia Tech Institute of Technology. Looking at incubating more than 50000 student business ideas by 2025.
- African Union Agenda 2063: Since 2015 I have been driving the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between University of South Africa (UNISA) and the African Union Commission.
PROFESSIONAL AND WORK EXPERIENCE
Prof Mpofu has been a member of the University of South Africa (UNISA) Council; Finance, Investments and Estates Committee of Council (2013-2015); Board member, School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa (2015); Full tenured Professor in Finance at University of South Africa (UNISA) (2013 to date); Deputy Executive Dean, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA) (2013 to date); Acting Executive Dean and CEO, Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa (UNISA) (2018-2019); Acting Executive Dean, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA) (2014-2015); Acting Deputy Executive Dean, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA) (2012-2013).
PUBLICATIONS (Published more than 40 journal articles, books, conference proceedings)
Selected 10 Publications
- Mpofu, RT., 2021, Entrepreneurship Development in Zimbabwe: The case of two cities and a rural town in a “danse des petits cygnes”. (Work in progress)
- Mpofu, RT., 2021, Attitudes, perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial intention: dimensionality, structural relationships, and gender differences. (Work in progress)
- Mpofu, R. and Nicolaides, A., 2019. Frankenstein and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Ethics and Human Rights Considerations
- Mpofu, R.T., 2017, Macroeconomic variables and food price inflation, non-food price inflation and overall inflation: a case of an emerging market, Risk Governance & Control: Financial Markets & Institutions, Volume 7, Issue 2, Spring 2017, pp. 38 – 48.
- Mpofu, R.T., 2015, Dollarization and Economic Development in Zimbabwe: an interrupted time-series analysis, Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets & Institutions, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2015, pp. 52 – 62.
- Mpofu, R.T., 2013, Standard of Living, Quality of Life and per Capita GDP: A South African Experience, Journal of Corporate Ownership and Control. 11, Issue 1, pp. 892-899
- Mpofu, R.T., 2013, Where Does the Money Go? A Peregrination of Government Spending in South Africa, Journal of Governance and Regulation, 2, Issue 4, pp. 29-39.
- Mpofu, R.T. 2011, Knowledge management practices in Malawi, African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 5(32), pp. 12408 – 12417.
- Business management for entrepreneurs, C. Nieuwenhuizen (Ed) et. al. ISBN: 0702177113, Publisher: Juta Academic, Publication date: 2007
- Investment Management, Authors: J. MARX (Ed), Mpofu R.T, , Publisher: Van Schaik Publishers, ISBN: 9780627026201, Original Publication date: December 2005 (Currently 6th, 2022)
- Introduction to Business Management, Authors: Cronje, G J de J (Ed) et al, Publisher: Oxford Press, Publication date: 2004
