Dr alan hirsch biography
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Prof Alan Hirsch
Alan Hirsch is Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at UCT and founding director of the School, 2011 - 2019. He was born in Cape Town and educated at UCT, Wits and Columbia. He taught at UCT, joined the SA Department of Trade and Industry in 1995; from 2002, he managed economic policy in the South African Presidency, and represented the President in the G20, and was co-chair of the G20 Development Working Group. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, serves on the Board of the European Centre for Development Policy Management and on President Ramaphosa’s Economic Advisory Council. He was visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School, regular visiting professor at Maastricht University, IGC research director in Zambia, OECD Inclusive Growth Advisory Panel-member, on the International Advisory Board of the New Development Bank, and Bradlow Fellow at the SA Institute for International Affairs. His work incl
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Alan Hirsch
Australian author, serial entrepreneur, thought leader in the missional church movement
This article is about the church leader. For the neurologist, see Alan Hirsch (neurologist). For the lawyer, see Alan Hirsch (professor).
Alan Hirsch (born 24 October 1959) is an Australian author, serial entrepreneur, thought leader in the missional church movement, key missions strategist for churches around the world, and founder of numerous global organizations.
Life
[edit]Hirsch was born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1959.[1] He moved to Cape Town, in 1963 where he spent most of his childhood and adolescence. Then, he went to university in Cape Town where he studied business and marketing and moved to Australia in 1983 with his family. Although his family was not particularly religious, he was very much influenced by his Jewish heritage. He emphasizes Jesus as the Jewish Messiah and makes distinctions between Hebraic and Hellenistic
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Alan Hirsch (professor)
American political scientist
Alan L. Hirsch is an American academic who has taught at Williams College since 2006, and has chaired the Justice and Law Studies program for most of that time. Hirsch, who received his BA from Amherst College and JD at Yale Law School, serves as a trial consultant and expert witness in false confessions. He has been retained in roughly 400 cases and testified in 50.[1] Hirsch testified in the highly publicized case of Skylar Richardson, a teenage girl accused of killing her newborn baby and burying it in her backyard. Richardson was acquitted.[2]
He has written extensively about false confessions, and been qualified as an expert in 24 jurisdictions. He created the first website devoted to the subject and also created a podcast about False Confessions. Hirsch has also written numerous books, as well as scholarly and mainstream articles on other subjects, some law-related and others about politics, sports