Dr Schalk Engelbrecht

Date of first appointment: 2021/09/06

Schalk Engelbrecht is an ethicist, the Chief Ethics Officer at KPMG in South Africa, and a student of philosophy.

He is responsible for KPMG’s ethics programme in Southern Africa, a research fellow with the Centre for Applied Ethics at Stellenbosch University, as well as the Stellenbosch Business School. He sits on the Ethics Committee of the South African Institute of Charactered Accountants (SAICA) and chairs the “Role and Mindset” working group.

Before joining KPMG Schalk lectured Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Stellenbosch and North-West University. He has also lectured Business Ethics as part MBA programmes and was previously the editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Business Ethics. He lectures Data Ethics as part of the Data Science programme at Stellenbosch University.