Thanti Mthanti is a senior lecturer at the UCT GSB, he holds a PhD (Finance) from Wits and is also one of a handful of Professional Risk Manager (PRM™) charter holders in South Africa. The PRM™ designation is a globally recognised, graduate-level mathematical finance and risk management credential endorsed by leading university programmes such as Columbia University Business School, National University of Singapore - Centre for Financial Engineering, Technical University of Munich - HVB-Institute for Mathematical Finance, The University of Reading - ICMA Centre, HEC Montréal, etc. His primary fields are Finance and Entrepreneurship. He has published in high quality academic articles in top international journals like Research Policy, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management and the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy.