EY recruits Lucia Hlongwane to be new Africa Tax Leader – Jim Deiotte to retire

EY has announced that Lucia Hlongwane will be joining the Firm as Africa Tax Leader. She will also become a member of the Africa Executive.

Lucia joins from the Barclays Africa Group where she has been Group Head of Tax since 2013. Prior to this she worked at Shell as Africa Head of Tax.

She is joint president of the South African Institute of Tax Professionals and is a Tax Committee Member of Business Unity South Africa.

The current Africa Tax Leader, Jim Deiotte, will retire from the US firm at the end of the year.