Alan Hirsch

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  www.engineeringnews.co.za/index.php?al_id=240482 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/13/2008    Last Visited: 5/13/2008  

  South Africa could still attain its target of 6% growth from 2010, despite the "serious power emergency", The Presidency's deputy policy head Alan Hirsch said at the released of the 2007 annual report for the Accelerated and Share Growth Initiative for South Africa (Asgisa) last week.

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  www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/the-presidency-outlin - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/24/2009    Last Visited: 2/25/2009  

  The Presidency's chief director for policy co-ordination Alan Hirsch responded to a series of questions posed to him by Engineering News Editor Terence Creamer about the so-called 'Framework for South Africa's Response to the International Economic Crisis' released late last week.
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  Below is a transcript of an email conversation conducted between Engineering News and Hirsch:
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  Alan Hirsch: We report to the President [Kgalema Motlanthe] and his Joint Economic Working Group.
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  The Presidency's chief director for policy co-ordination Alan Hirsch The Presidency's chief director for policy co-ordination Alan Hirsch

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  www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=132778 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/8/2008    Last Visited: 5/8/2008  

  And, a claim from the Presidency's deputy policy head Alan Hirsch that South Africa could still attain its target of 6% growth from 2010 despite the ‘serious power emergency'

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  www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=132137 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/8/2008    Last Visited: 5/8/2008  

  South Africa could still attain its target of 6% growth from 2010, despite the "serious power emergency", the Presidency's deputy policy head, Alan Hirsch, said at the release of the 2007 annual report for the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (Asgisa) last week.
  
  He added that the power crisis was not a "fundamental impediment" to the attainment of the programme's stated growth aspirations.
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  Hirsch said that, in spite of the expectation that the economy would slow down in 2008, there was no immediate reason for government to change its target of halving poverty and unemployment.

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  South Africa could still attain its target of 6% growth from 2010, despite the "serious power emergency", The Presidency's deputy policy head Alan Hirsch said at the released of the 2007 annual report for the Accelerated and Share Growth Initiative for South Africa (Asgisa) last week.He added that the power crisis was not a "fundamental impediment" to the attainment of the programme's stated growth aspirations.

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  www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/ontheair-02052003-200 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/5/2003    Last Visited: 2/25/2009  

  Presidency deputy head of policy coordination and advisory services Alan Hirsch explains the governments continued investment in infrastructure. (20/11/2008) Cameraperson: Danie de Beer Video editing by: Darlene Creamer

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  Businessmen and unionist join IDC board - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/27/1999    Last Visited: 12/31/2001  

  is professor SJ Zondi; Alan Hirsch, the chief director for industry and technology strategy at the trade and industry department; Durban-based businessman Don Mkhwanazi; business leader Danisa Baloyi; CG Smith chairman Derek Cooper; Sankorp CE Dave Brink; and businesswoman Nana Magomola.

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  Culver Techies On The Spot In Springfield Feb. 16 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/8/2006    Last Visited: 2/11/2006  

  Technology Director Alan Hirsch and eighth grade students Prachi Shah and Josephine Tritsch will represent Culver.

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  ERSA - Economic Research Southern Africa - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/25/2009    Last Visited: 10/25/2009  

  - Alan Hirsch
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  Alan Hirsch: Presidency Alan Hirsch was born in Cape Town, and educated in South Africa and the USA, with degrees in economics, economic history and history from UCT, Wits, and Columbia University. He also trained at Georgetown University, and was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School.
  
  He worked as an economics lecturer and economic policy research director at the University of Cape Town from 1984 to 1986 and from1989 to 1995.
  
  Hirsch joined the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as Chief Director, Industry and Technology Strategy in 1995. In 1999, after spending a year at Harvard, he returned to the post of Chief Director, Business Regulation and Consumer Services in the DTI. In 2000 he was appointed Deputy Chief Economist of the DTI, and Strategic Advisor on New Economy Policy. In 2002 he joined the Presidency as Chief Director Economic Sector, Policy Coordination and Advisory Services (PCAS). In 2007 he was appointed Deputy Director General and Deputy Head of the policy unit (PCAS) in The Presidency.
  
  Hirsch managed a wide range of projects and programmes at DTI, leading trade negotiations, negotiations for a World Bank loan, initiating or modifying many of the supply-side measures and investment incentives operating since the mid-1990s. He also helped establish several new institutions such as Trade and Industrial Policy and Strategies (TIPS), Investment South Africa, the Micro-Finance Regulatory Council (now the National Credit Regulator), and the ICT Development Council.
  
  Hirsch was a member of the boards of the Industrial Development Corporation, the State Tender Board, the National Training Board, and the ISETT SETA. He is currently a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation, on the boards of the Meraka Open Source Centre, Denel, Denel Aviation, on the steering committee of Economic Research South Africa (ERSA) and chairperson of the board of Trade and Industrial Policy and Strategies-TIPS.

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  International Poverty Centre - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/13/2007    Last Visited: 12/6/2008  

  Mr. Alan Hirsch, Deputy Head of Presidency's Policy Unit, South Africa

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