Meg Pahad has worked mainly in education and is a freelance editor. She joined the Board of Project Literacy in April 2005 and became its Chair in 2012. She is convinced that Project Literacy and Run Home to Read together provide a unique multi-layered solution to South Africa’s literacy crisis; and is passionately committed to supporting its work.

Meg has a BA from Sussex University and she taught in the UK where she was the London co-ordinator of the Primary Schools section of Teachers Against Racism from 1970-74. From 1975-85 she lived in Prague where she worked at the World Federation of Trade Unions. In 1990/1 she returned with her family to South Arica from exile.

She worked at the IEB from 1992-2000, exploring assessment in schooling, adult education and skills training, and is now on the IEB Board. Meg was responsible for the Secretariat of the National Pilot Project for Early Childhood Development.
In 1994 she was elected as Chair of the Gauteng Education and Training Organisations Forum. In 1996 she completed an M Ed at Wits University.
Meg was appointed to three ministerial committees by different Ministers of Education and in 1999 she chaired the Department of Education Task Team which set up Umalusi. In 2000 she was contracted by the Education, Training and Development Practices constituency to establish the quality assurance division of the ETDP SETA. She managed the Department of Labour’s national assessor training project to support learnership implementation and she was an active member of SAQA’s assessor SGB. From 2006-10 Meg was a member of
the Department of Labour’s NQF Task Team which drafted policies for the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations.
From 2011 Meg had been a member of the panel of the Government Technical Advisory Centre of the National Treasury. From 2012-2019 she was managing editor of The Thinker journal. Meg is married to Essop Pahad and they have two
children, Amina and Govan, and five grandchildren.