Andrew Boraine is Chief Executive of the Cape Town Partnership, a public-private partnership focusing on the regeneration of the Cape Town Central City. The role of the Partnership is to develop, manage and promote the Cape Town Central City as a leading centre where all can participate in and benefit from commercial, retail, residential, cultural, tourism, education, entertainment and leisure activities. The Partnership manages the work of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID), a pioneering urban management vehicle, as well as the innovative Creative Cape Town, Sustainable City and 2010 Soccer World Cup programmes.

From 2001 to 2003, Andrew Boraine was Special Advisor to the Minister for Provincial and Local Government (renamed Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in 2009) in South Africa on city development strategy and urban policy. In this capacity, he conceptualised and coordinated the establishment of the South African Cities Network (SACN), a knowledge-sharing organisation linking South Africa’s nine largest cities. The Cities Network focuses on city development strategies, and publishes the influential report on the State of South African Cities. Andrew chaired the Board of the Cities Network for five years.

Andrew Boraine was City Manager of the City of Cape Town from 1997 to 2001. Prior to this, he was Deputy Director-General in the Department of Constitutional Development in charge of local government, where he participated in drafting the Local Government Chapter in the South African Constitution and the White Paper on Local Government.

Andrew Boraine has been involved in South Africa’s community, political, local government and urban development processes for the past 30 years. He has delivered papers on city and urban development strategy at a range of international work-shops and conferences organised inter alia by the Urban Age Project, Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (UK), Institute of Governance and Public Management at Warwick Business School (UK), Cities Alliance, World Bank, United Nations, UK Government and USAID. He recently took part in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme Urban Missions to the Cities of Belfast, Derry and Barcelona.

Andrew is Chairperson of the Board of the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) and serves on the Boards of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), the DBSA Development Fund, Accelerate Cape Town (ACT) and the Washington-based International Downtown Association. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. He was a recipient of the Cape Times/ KPMG Judges Award in 2007 and Die Burger/Kaapstad Sakekamer Business Leader of the Year Award in 2008 and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Andrew is a graduate of the University of Cape Town, and is married to Nike Romano with two children, Mano and Angelo.

Mano Boraine, then aged 4, holds up a Business Day poster in February 2001 that marked the end of my career as City Manager. I'm pleased to say that controversial mayor Pieter Marais didn't last long after

With my father, Dr Alex Boraine and Madiba

Checking out the new public art in Pier Place, Cape Town Central City

Taking Enrique Penalosa, ex-Mayor of Bogota and BRT expert, on a walking tour of the Cape Town Central City

Meeting The Edge, one of my guitar heroes at a function hosted by the Lord Mayor of Dublin to honour Archbishop Desmond Tutu

With good friend Jordi Williams Carne, Deputy Mayor, Barcelona

Meeting with the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce during our OECD LEED review of Barcelona Activa in 2008

Taking Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors delegates on a walking tour of the Cape Town Central City, 2008

Meetiing Bono at a function in Dublin hosted by SA Ambassador to Ireland Priscilla Jana in honour of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

In discussion with Alderman Dan Plato, Executive Mayor of Cape Town, and Jordi Sacristan from 22@Barcelona, at the CT Partnership's 10th anniversary urban regeneration conference at the Townhouse Hotel in Cape Town

Addressing the Belfast State of the City Conference in 2008

Attending the World Business Districts for Sustainable Development Summit in Paris

Encountering a heat-activated camera at the Milwaukee Discovery Centre in September 2009. I was there to attend the 55th Annual Congress of the International Downtown Association

Inspecting the security situation on the Cape Town Station Deck with colleagues in 2007. The situation has vastly improved since then.

With colleagues from the City of Cape Town at an IDA function at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 2009

Judging the Most Creative Stand at the 2008 Design Indaba in Cape Town

With the Lord Mayor of Belfast and speakers at the Belfast State of the City Conference in 2008

With colleagues at the CTP10 urban regeneration conference in Cape Town in August 2009. Next to me is Sithole Mbanga, CEO, South Africa Cities Network, an organisation which I helped to establish in 2002

Teambuilding with the Cape Town International Convention Centre team in 2008

The Executive Management Team of the City of Cape Town, 1999

OECD LEED team, Stormont Castle, Northern Ireland, 2009

On Signal Hill, with new Cape Town Stadium in the background