Doris Viljoen is the director of Institute for Futures Research (IFR) at Stellenbosch Business School, where she endeavours to interpret global as well as local trends and assess their relevance for South Africa and Africa.
She has specialised skills in environmental scanning, the application of foresight methodology, scenario planning as well as strategy development.
She has a wide range of research interests and is passionate about asking the right questions, searching for and finding relevant data as well as designing tools and techniques to facilitate thinking about plausible futures. She is also senior lecturer on the Stellenbosch Business School Postgraduate Diploma and M Phil in Futures Studies.