If career success is marked by scoring reserved parking spots Ari Mervis has picked up a fair share over the years – including one on the Wits campus when he was RAG chairperson.

Sometimes in life you get to bend the rules and it can be the best thing ever. For Professor Chyrisse Heine it was when, as a student, she was expected to choose between speech therapy and audiology as a career path. She chose both.

With a Master’s and PhD in ethics, Dr Jenny Gray (BSc Eng 1986; Graduate Diploma in Engineering 1988; MA 2008), the CEO of Zoos Victoria in Australia, draws on this to guide her life and work.