Calie Pistorius is a South African who is currently the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The University of Pretoria is a university in South Africa, with a total of about 30 000 students being enrolled in 2001. ...

Prof. Pistorius is a consultant to industry and government on issues relating to strategy, management of technology, technological innovation, competitiveness and national technological policy. He is also a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation in South Africa.

Prof. Pistorius obtained the degree B.Sc(Eng) (cum laude) in electronic Engineering form the University of Pretoria in 1979 and the degree B.Eng (Hons) (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the same university in 1981. He obtained the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University in the USA in 1984 and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering also from the Ohio State University in 1986.

In addition Prof. Pistorius obtained the S.M. degree in the Management of Technology from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA in 1994.

Prof. Pistorius has published widely both nationally and internationally and has 107 academic publications to his credit. He has received numerous awards and prizes including the prize for the best Ph.D dissertation from the ElectroScience Laboratory at the Ohio State University, the President's Award from the National Research Foundation and the Bill Venter Prize for outstanding contributions to research published in book form by university personnel in South Africa.

At the University Prof. Pistorius was head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering for five years, Director of the Institute for Technological Innovation for four years, Director of Information Technology for two years and Dean of the Faculty for one and a half years.