Dr Prieur du Plessis serves as Honorary Consul of Slovenia for South Africa. His background is provided below.

With 26 years’ experience in investment research and portfolio management, Du Plessis is one of the most experienced and well-known investment professionals in South Africa. More than 1 200 of his articles on investment-related topics have been published in various regular inter-word, journal and Internet columns. He also published a book, Financial Basics: Investment, in 2002.

He is the author of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog – ranked among the top 15 international investment blogs: www.investmentpostcards.com

Du Plessis is Chairman and principal shareholder of South African-based Plexus Asset Management, which he founded in 1995. The group conducts investment management, investment consulting, private equity and real estate activities in South Africa and a number of foreign countries.

In 2001 he received the Santam/AHI Business Leader of the Year award for corporate leadership, business acumen and entrepreneurial flair. Plexus received the AHI/Old Mutual Enterprise of the Year award in 1997.

Dr du Plessis’s leisure activities include long-distance running, travelling, reading, motorcycling and scripophily. He lives with his wife, television producer and presenter Isabel Verwey, and two children in Stellenbosch. Ms Verwey is actively involved with Proud Partners – an organisation which uplifts previously disadvantaged communities through the provision of musical instruments and tuition to a large number of schools.