Adam Habib

Habib has published numerous edited books, book chapters and journal articles over the last two decades in the thematic areas of democratisation and its consolidation in South Africa, contemporary social movements, philanthropy, giving and its impact on poverty alleviation and development, institutional reform, changing identities and their evolution in the post-apartheid era, and South Africa’s role in Africa and beyond. He is a well-known public figure in South Africa whose opinions are often sought by both the print and broadcasting media.

In December 2012, the University of the Witwatersrand invited Habib to be that institution's next vice-chancellor.

On 20 January 2010, after more than three years of waiting, the American State Department has decided, in a document signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to lift the ban that prohibited Habib (as well as Tariq Ramadan from Switzerland) from entering the United States.

In November 2007, according to The New York Times, the US informed Habib he had been barred entry over allegations of: "...engaging in terrorist activities." The Christian Science Monitor reported that he had been barred due to having: "...links to terrorism".

In October 2006 Habib was apprehended and deported when he flew into John F. Kennedy Airport, in New York City. Habib had studied in New York when he was in graduate school. He had made numerous trips to New York in the past.

In November 2006 Habib and his wife learned that she and their two children, aged 8 and 11, would also be barred entry to the USA.