Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Cape Town at STIAS
Watson is a chartered accountant and holds the Richard Sonnenberg Professor of Accounting at the College of Accounting at UCT. Her experience has made her an asset to many of South Africa’s financial oversight organisations, including being appointed to lead as independent Director of Coronation Fund Managers Limited, chairing its audit and risk committee and serving as lead independent non-executive director since 2017.
She was the vice-chairperson of the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative, an independent Amsterdam-based organisation that has pioneered sustainability reporting since 1997. She is also an adjudicator on the EY-sponsored Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards and a member of the JSE’s Financial Reporting Investigations Panel. She was chairperson of the Accounting Practices Committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the WWF South Africa Board. Watson currently serves as an independent director and audit committee chair of a listed company.