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Gareth Morgan is the Executive Director of Future Planning and Resilience in the City of Cape Town. He leads a portfolio of functions, including corporate portfolio management, strategic planning, data science, and risk management, that help the organisation plan for the future and to be prepared for shocks and stresses. Prior to his current role he was the Director of Resilience. He led the development of the first Cape Town Resilience Strategy, and held leadership positions in the portfolio responses of the City to both the recent regional drought and the current COVID-19 pandemic.  

In the early part of his career he was a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly (NA) for nine years, serving predominantly on the Portfolio Committee of Environmental Affairs and he served for two years as a whip of the NA. 

He is an Aspen Global Leadership Fellow and an Archbishop Tutu Fellow and was a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, which took him to Oxford University where he read for a MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a MSc in Environmental Change and Management. He recently published his first book: “Becoming Good at Crises – A Field Guide for Leaders”.