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Hello, I'm Dr Riyad Moosa

Biography

Dr Riyad Moosa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accountancy at the University of Johannesburg and a Chartered Accountant CA(SA) with a Doctor of Business Administration. He has over a decade of experience spanning auditing, corporate governance, Islamic finance, and educational innovation. He has published peer reviewed research in reputable international publications and presented his work at conferences across multiple countries. He serves on the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) Committee for Auditing Standards, currently as deputy chair for the Medical Schemes Audit Guide task group and previously chaired the task group for the revised ISA 570 Going Concern. His recent research introduced the Interpersonal Architect, a framework that redefines the educator's role in AI-enhanced higher education, developed and tested across two years and workshopped with practitioners and academics at an international conference. He actively extends this work to broader audiences through mainstream business media.

Keynote Address:

 The Interpersonal Architect: Redefining the Educator’s Role in the Age of AI

Higher education faces a pressing question: as artificial intelligence reshapes teaching and learning, what becomes of the educator? This presentation argues that the educator’s role is not disappearing but becoming more human, not less. Drawing on a published two-year classroom study involving 127 university students, the Interpersonal Architect is introduced as a framework that repositions the educator in AI-enhanced higher education as a learning designer, human connector, and ethical guide. Rather than replacing the educator, AI tools can free them from routine content delivery, creating space for the work that only a human can do. This presentation demonstrates that with standard institutional resources, any educator can scale multimodal learning across visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic pathways without burning out and without surrendering pedagogical control. Grounded in real classroom evidence, honest reflection, and student voices, the work ultimately asks what higher education looks like when educators choose to lead AI integration rather than follow it. The answer begins with one classroom, one educator, and one decision to become an Interpersonal Architect.