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| | Commissioner - CSIR (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Geoff Garrett is president of South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an organization that has in recent years undergone major organizational and cultural transformation, driving toward a prime objective as a market-driven provider of technological solutions and information in support of sustainable development and economic growth. |
 | | Here he was responsible for international and corporate strategy development and implementation as well as having management responsibility for various CSIR line operating divisions, from aeronautics and manufacturing systems, information technology, and advanced materials, to transport, forestry and food technology. |
 | | Before moving to the CSIR in March 1986 as chief director of the then National Institute of Materials Research, he was from 1980, professor of physical and fabrication Metallurgy in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where, from January 1984, he was head of the department. |
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