Lawson Naidoo

Lawson Naidoo is the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), an organisation committed to the principles of progressive constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law. He has held this position since CASAC’s inception in 2010.

He has worked as a strategic political consultant focusing on the spheres of anti-corruption and good governance. He is a regular media commentator on constitutional and legal issues.

Lawson was recently appointed Chairperson of Cricket South Africa. He is a trustee of the Momentum Medical Scheme and is the Chairman of its Governance & Remuneration Committee. He is a former trustee of the Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust, an NGO that focuses on providing scholarships to tertiary students and the promotion of human rights in southern Africa.

Lawson is a Founding Partner at The Paternoster Group – African Political Insight, a consultancy focusing on political economy issues in South Africa.

During 2007-08 he served as the Secretary of the Presidential Enquiry into the fitness of the National Director of Public Prosecutions to hold office (the Ginwala Enquiry). He previously held the position of Special Advisor to the Speaker of the National Assembly from 1994 to 1999.

He spent many years in political exile in the UK, and worked at the ANC Mission in London, serving, inter alia, as a Spokesman for the ANC.

He holds an LL.B from the University of Southampton and an LL.M from the University of Cambridge, and was admitted as a barrister at the Inner Temple.