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Margaux Giannaros is a Digital Marketing and Communications Manager at the Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) and a Co-Founder at Pangaea International Gemstone Trading. She worked as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and has an MBA from the Graduate School of Business – University of Cape.

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