Christopher Mathew

South Africa

Master of Business Administration (MBA), 2017
Trinity College
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann Saïd

Chris is currently the Health Informatics Officer for a South African private hospital group. In this role, he also serves as the clinical lead for their digitisation project, which will establish the largest electronic medical record (EMR) system on the continent and create South Africa’s first fully digitised hospital. Prior to joining Netcare, Chris trained as a medical doctor and then went on to complete an MBA as a Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Hoffman Saïd Scholar, followed by a Masters in International Health & Tropical Medicine as an ExxonMobiil Global Health Scholar. He is passionate about healthcare and technology, the ever-expanding intersection of the two and the role this will have in improving healthcare for all South Africans on a massive scale.

Chris is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.