Dr Konar is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Financial Reporting Standards Council of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. He served as Executive Director at the Independent Development Trust. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Accountancy at the University of Durban-Westville. He is a past independent non-executive director of several listed, unlisted and State-owned entities. presenter on the MBA programmes at WBS and Executive Leadership Programmes at GIBS, WBS and Duke University Corporate Education. He was a member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance, the Corporate Governance Forum, the Institute of Directors and the National Association of Corporate Directors (USA). He completed BCom degree, Master’s in Accounting Science and his PhD in Accounting.