Segran Nair Appointed As Milpark Business School’s New Director
Segran Nair Appointed As Milpark Business School’s New Director. Segran Nair has been appointed director of Milpark Business School. Nair, formerly the director of open academic programmes at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), took on the role on 1 June 2023.
Director of Milpark Business School Segran Nair says that it is critical for business schools to not only develop business literacy skills among students but to develop individuals holistically so that they become better businesspeople – and better leaders.
He brings a wealth of experience to his new position. A respected thought leader in strategy, management, and leadership, Nair has consulted to the higher education sector in South Africa as well as startups within South Africa and the Netherlands. He has held senior positions at the UCT GSB as well as prestigious universities abroad, including Cornell University, George Mason University, and Brown University.
“We aim to bridge the gap between the accountants sitting at one end of the table and the rest of us sitting at the other. But we go much further than that,” he says. “We develop the holistic aspects of the individual, too.” Of this process, Nair says: “It goes back to Michael Jackson’s song, Man in the Mirror. It requires people to be incredibly deliberate and to ask themselves: Is that really me? We want to develop higher levels of emotional intelligence so that we can engage with people with a different sense of what it means to be a leader.”
Nair would also like for South African businesses to have greater business opportunities to participate across the continent. He believes that Milpark Business School is able to contribute toward this push by providing individuals with high-quality education that enables them to compete with and thrive alongside their global and domestic peers. Increased government investment in entrepreneurship would also benefit innovation that the school promotes, he says.
