Stewart Ting Chong [Full Resume]

Stewart's resume reflects a great deal of diverse experience. He has completed a degree in Company Administration and is a certified accounting officer for Closed Corporations in South Africa. He has worked for companies such as Firestone South Africa and served on the personal staff of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He has also worked with the South African Government and many of its state departments, consulting on IT application, implementation and strategy. He has IBM and Microsoft certification in project management methodology and a dual Master of Science Degree at Boston University with concentrations in Innovation & Technology and E-Commerce. Stewart also has a Graduate Certificate in Database and Client-Server Architecture from Boston University.

He has also worked with numerous developmental and non-government agencies in Africa. He was responsible for managing several divisions, including Professional Services, Web Development and Outsourcing for the regional office of a leading international call center software development company. As senior IT manager for a major development partner of the South African Government, Stewart was responsible for the delivery of software applications for government.

Stewart’s international work experience extends not only to South Africa but also to the UK, Ireland, Switzerland and several countries in Africa including Kenya, Mozambique, Botswana, Tanzania, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Having been involved in human rights issues for a number of years, Stewart has served on a number of boards and committees in South Africa, including the Human Rights Committee of Southern Africa, a non-government organization, the Network of Independent Monitors and the Joint Forum on Policing. In 1994, during the first democratic election in South Africa, he worked with the UN and EU Monitoring Group to South Africa. Through his role in the Human Rights Committee of Southern Africa, Stewart was privileged to have made submissions to the formation of the Bill of Rights of the South African Constitution and to the legislation that governed the Truth And Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.

Stewart is an advisor to the board of SHARED (www.healthshares.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving global health by increasing the availability of essential medicines and vaccines for the world's poorest people. SHARED currently has projects in Armenia and Lesotho, Southern Africa. All of Stewart's non-profit work is provided pro-bono.