Heidi Matisonn

Born to a cardiologist father and a philosopher mother, Heidi grew up in an environment in which ethical questions, particularly those in the medical sciences, were healthily debated. After a short stint working as an advertising copywriter, an even shorter one as a political speechwriter, and eventually accepting that she was not going to fulfil her ambition of being the benevolent dictator of the Central African Republic, she joined the University of KwaZulu Natal in 2007.