Sean Cleary

Sean Cleary is a former South African diplomat who is a board member at Erinys International South Africa.

Career History

• 1967-1969 (South African Navy) Assistant to the Staff Officer (Intelligence) on the staff of Commander Maritime Defence
• 1970-1975 (South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Diplomat to Tehran
• 1976-1977 (South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Deputy Head of the Economic and Financial Relations Division
• 1977-1978 (South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Head of the Training Division
• 1978-1982 (South African Embassy) Political Counsellor and Head of the Political Division
• 1982-1983 (South African Embassy) Consul-General in the twelve Western States of the USA
• 1983-1985 Chief Director in Namibia where he initiated negotiations between SWAPO and other Namibian political parties, the release of Namibian political prisoners and the implementation of that territory's first Bill of Fundamental Rights.

Cleary is the Managing Director of Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd, which specialises in strategic counsel to multinational corporations, risk management and investment analysis in sub-Saharan Africa. He is also Chairman of Transcontinental Consultancy (Pty) Ltd and a director of several other South African and Namibian companies.

He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, a Faculty Member of the WEF Annual Meeting, a Member of the World Economic Forum's Southern African Task Force and the Institute of Directors, and a Trustee of the South African Foundation for Conciliation and the Peace and Reconstruction Foundation.

Mr. Cleary was a member of the Facilitating Committee and the Preparatory Committee of the National Peace Accord, and Chairman of the Working Group on the Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Organizations. He served on several national Advisory Committees in Namibia between 1985 and 1989.

Affiliations

Erinys International | World Economic Forum