Prof. Evance Kalula

Professor Evance Kalula has an LLM from Kings College, University of London, and a PhD from the School of Law at the University of Warwick (1989).

He is Director of Internationalisation and Outreach in the Faculty of Law at UCT, where he also served as Deputy Dean and Professor of Employment Law and Social Security.

Professor Kalula is a member of the Ministerial Economic Advisory Panel in the Department of Economic Development, and President of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA). Professor Kalula is also a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, is on the governing board of the Children’s Institute at UCT, and serves on the advisory board of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Montreal. Additionally, Professor Kalula served on the governing council of the University of Lusaka, Zambia.

He sat on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Commission of Inquiry into complaints of non-observance by Zimbabwe of freedom of association and collective bargaining conventions from 2008 to 2010, and served as chairman of the SA Employment Conditions Commission (2000-2011). He has served as consultant, expert and resource person to various international organisations, government agencies and trade unions, including the Zambian government, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the International Transport Workers’ Federation, BP Africa, the SADC Employment and Labour Sector, and the US Department of Labour.