Gisela Kaiser

Gisela Kaiser is a qualified professional Civil Engineer with an MBA and PhD and has more than 25 years’ experience in infrastructure development in public and private organisations, covering a broad variety of sectors including consulting engineering, industrial, retail, higher education and local government. She is a seasoned management executive and has been responsible for utility services at the City of Cape Town since 2012. Her passion is finding a balance amongst the competing priorities of social equity, technical excellence, environmental sustainability and financial sustainability. Most recently she was the technical lead during the Cape Town drought response.