Mr. Lawrence Gqesha

Mr Lawrence Gqesha is the Technical Advisor in Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for the Good Financial Governance in Africa programme. He provides technical advice on Public Financial Management Reforms to the Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) secretariat based in Pretoria. Previously, he was a Senior Economist with National Treasury of South Africa for 13 years where he worked within the Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) Branch under the Chief Directorate: Local Government Budget Analysis. Before he worked at Provincial Treasury, Western Cape as an Assistant Director: Provincial Budget Management. Lawrence holds a BPhil Honours {Information and Knowledge Management} from Stellenbosch University, B.Com majored in Statistics and Economics from University of the Western Cape and a National Diploma in Information Technology from Cape Technikon.