Prof. Dirk & Suzette Meerkotter

Prof. Dirk Meerkotter

Consultant/Survey Researcher

Qualifications: BA (UP), BEd (cum laude) (RAU), MEd (cum laude) (RAU), DEd (RAU), TTHD (JCE)

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What I do every day... My main responsibility is the maintenance, expansion and strengthening of Rode’s national panel of experts, who inform and provide data for the Company’s residential, industrial, retail and office market rental surveys. The dynamic and changing nature of the area of research demands a continuous assessment process to ensure that the composition of the expert panel is representative of the markets which are surveyed.

About me... I love spending time with my wife and children, and to share in the wisdom of a four year old granddaughter. The way in which her sense of what happens around her develops through story-telling, music and drawing fascinates me enormously. In addition to this, I remain very interested in national and international socio-economic and political discussion, broadly. And more specifically, how the social and economic contexts in which children grow up, impact on their learning in formal educational settings.

Suzette Meerkotter

Survey Coordinator and member of Valuations Team

Qualifications: BA (UP), BEd (cum laude) (UWC), TTHD (JCE), PGDE (UWC), NDREES (UNISA)

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What I do every day... My main responsibilities include the collection and capturing of research data for Rode’s residential market rental surveys; the development and updating of questionnaires for the surveys; and the maintenance and expansion of Rode’s panel of experts who contribute to the research surveys. The mentioned tasks and responsibilities involve intense professional and personal contact with the key role players serving on the panel of experts, on a daily basis.

About me... I love spending quality time with my granddaughter, children and husband. Our recent re-location from Cape Town to Johannesburg is directly linked to the promotion and maintenance of my father-in-law’s works of art, which I have always admired passionately. The home in which we live and work in Johannesburg, also happens to be the venue where we got married many years ago.

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