Kuben Naidoo

Head of Secretariat, National Planning Commission, South Africa

Common Purpose Trustee

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Kuben has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Management from Wits University and an MBA from the University of Birmingham, UK. He joined the National Treasury at the beginning of 1998, has worked on education finance, public sector personnel policy, intergovernmental fiscal relations, capital budgeting, budget reform and fiscal policy. He is presently the head of the Budget Office. Kuben also did a two year stint at the UK Treasury, working on capital budgets and their biannual spending review.