Saleem Badat is a South African university leader, critical sociologist, higher education policy specialist and researcher.
In his role as CEO, he built the Council up to serve as statutory advisory and national accreditation body for higher education in South Africa.
[3] His portfolio encompassed grant making in the arts and humanities to research universities in South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Egypt, and Lebanon and to pan-African and pan-Arab institutions working in higher education.
[2] As a critical scholar, Badat's core research and writings concern social equity and redress, diversity and inclusion and the decolonization and.transfomation of universities and society.
Based on his PhD, Badat published in 2002 Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid from SASO to SANSCO, 1968-1990 (HSRC Press, republished in 2016 by Taylor & Francis).