Jacqui Kew

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Jacqui Kew is a professional educator and researcher specializing in financial literacy. Her focus is on financial accounting, small business development and entrepreneurial education.

 

Her main areas of research include small business development, youth studies and entrepreneurship. She is a team member of the South African Team member for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and has and co-authored a number of the South African reports. She has also authored and co-authored books in entrepreneurship and accounting that are used in South Africa and other SADC countries. Her research interests have focused on ICT usage in small businesses, youth and entrepreneurship, township entrepreneurs and the effectiveness of business interventions’.

 

She develops and presents short courses for micro-businesses, is involved in a number of small business development programs such as the Raymond Ackerman Academy and Business Bridge, a not-for-profit organization offering facilitated on-line business courses and is involved in entrepreneurially-directed Corporate Social investment work within public companies in South Africa.