Just Managing Consulting

Background

Just Managing Consulting is a grantee of the PMI funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW).

People

The main author of the company’s reports is Daniel Malan,¹² an Assistant Professor of Business Ethics at Trinity College Dublin.³ Previously, Malan had spent 10 years at KPMG, an accountancy firm with a longstanding relationship with the tobacco industry, followed by 15 years at the University of Stellenbosch.⁴

Links to the tobacco industry

In May 2017, Just Managing Consulting produced a report for the Africa Harm Reduction Alliance (AHRA). The AHRA is co-founded by Delon Human, a South African doctor with a history of collaborating with British American Tobacco (BAT) on tobacco harm reduction. The AHRA report – “Where there’s no smoke, is there still fire? Ethical aspects of Tobacco harm reduction” – argued for tobacco harm reduction and discusses the role of the tobacco industry in producing harm reduction products.²

Funded by the Foundation for a Smoke-free World

Since January 2020 it has received FSFW grants amounting to a total of US$ 87,350 for a series of projects:

• US$20,000 for a project titled “Public Health and Government Investment in Tobacco” ^{5 6}
• US$38,250 for the production of a report on “government ownership in tobacco companies”, titled “Contradictions and Conflicts”⁶
• US$29,100 for a report titled “A theory of Change for State-owned Tobacco Enterprises” ⁶

In 2020, Just Managing Consulting produced a report for the FSFW, titled “Contradictions and Conflicts”, launched as part of the lead up to the Tobacco Transformation Index. The report outlined how state ownership of tobacco companies creates a “conflict of interest” with the WHO FCTC. The report advocated for tobacco harm reduction in partnership with state owned tobacco industries.¹

Malan appeared on the FSFW podcast with Dereck Yach in September 2020⁷ and was a keynote speaker at the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum 2020 in his capacity as an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin.⁸

TobaccoTactics Resources

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