Trudi Makhaya is a Senior Advisor in the Johannesburg office of BCG, since June 2023.  Between 2018 and 2023, she served as economic advisor in the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa. In this role, she provided technical support to the President on economic policy. Trudi also served as South Africa’s G20 sherpa, representing the President in the drafting and negotiations ahead of Leaders’ summits and meetings ((& similarly for G7 when SA was invited as outreach partner). Trudi was an economist and later a member of the executive committee at the Competition Commission of South Africa from 2010 to 2014. Prior to joining the Competition Commission in 2010, Trudi held various management consulting and corporate roles at Deloitte South Africa, Genesis Analytics and AngloGold Ashanti. Trudi Makhaya holds an MBA and an MSc (Economics for Development) from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar; and a BCom (Law & Economics), BCom Hons and MCom (Economics) from Wits University.