Lieschen Venter lives in Stellenbosch and is a lecturer of Operations Research, the so-called “science of better”. She completed her school career in Somerset West and immediately enrolled for a degree in the mathematical sciences at Stellenbosch University. She obtained her Master’s degree in the economic management sciences funded by a bursary awarded by Sasol Technology. Contractually bound by the bursary, she relocated to Secunda, Mpumalanga to work for Sasol’s Decision Support group. During this time she was also privileged to head up a local congregation church planting team that is still strongly active today. It was during her church planting years that she was able to complete an Honours degree in Theology. After returning to Stellenbosch as an academic, she recently completed her PhD. Her dissertation describes a quantitative simulation model of the South African basic education system using a system dynamic modelling approach.
Lieschen describes herself as perpetually online and an information glutton. She has a keen interest in both local and global politics, popular culture trends, cultural expressions of ideology, behavioural pattern recognition, and trend prediction using popular media. She hopes to remain a lifelong student as she continues to search for a satisfying theory of everything.
