Zimkhitha Peter.

Chief Executive Officer, Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy

Zimkhitha Peter is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy. Her passion is social change through entrepreneurship in young people and she seeks to contribute to the alleviation of poverty and the improvement of socio-economic factors in the country.

Before her position as CEO, she held the position of Head of Programmes at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation focusing on ensuring the strategic alignment of the organisation’s scholarship and fellowship in association programmes.

She holds a BCom Honours in Industrial Psychology (UNISA) and a Leadership Development qualification from Harvard Business School.

“Most countries where people are entrepreneurial don’t start at a late age, they start at a very early age. The more we can see that happening at a primary school level and at a high school level, that will help us to go far.”