Professor Ronnie Samanyanga Lessem, born in Zimbabwe and now based in the UK, was co-founder, together with Dr Alexander Schieffer of TRANS4M (Hotonnes) which has since evolved, in part, into Trans4m Communiversity Associates (TCA), which together with Trans4m's partner university, Da Vinci Institute in South Africa, founded by Nelson Mandela, focuses on Doctoral Programmes, on the regeneration of particular societies. It is currently mainly active through its emerging communiversities in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe), West Africa (Nigeria), the Middle East (Egypt, Jordan), the Near East (Pakistan) and Europe (Switzerland, Sloveni, UK). Hitherto Ronnie Lessem has launched projects on European management with IMD in Switzerland, European-ness and Innovation with Roland Berger Foundation in Germany, African management, with Wits Graduate Business School in South Africa and Arab as well as Islamic Management with TEAM International in Cairo and Jordan. He studied economics at the University of Zimbabwe, the economics of industry at the London School of Economics, Corporate Planning at Harvard Business School and has since written some 50 books, the most recent, with Anselm Adodo and Tony Bradley, co-founders of TCA together with Aneeqa Malik, on The Idea of the Communiversity.
