Dr Azar Jammine matriculated at Pretoria Boys’ High School after which he did a BSc Honours in Mathematical Statistics at the University of the Witwatersrand.  Dr Azar Jammine represented Wits and Transvaal Under 20 at rugby.  During the period 1970 - 75 he was employed as Investment Analyst at Senbank and subsequently at Stockbrokers Martin & Co, now JP Morgan, during which time he completed a B.A. Honours in Economics, Cum Laude, part-time at Wits.  In 1976, Dr Azar Jammine completed his M.Sc in Economics at the London School of Economics, followed by his PhD at the London Business School after which he was awarded a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Business Strategy of the School. In order to pay his way whilst working on his PhD, Dr Azar Jammine used his knowledge of six languages to conduct numerous international business consultancy projects in Europe, North America and the Far East, covering a wide variety of industries.  Dr Azar Jammine returned to South Africa in December 1985. 

Dr Azar Jammine has published a number of articles in international strategic management journals and is co-author of “McGregor’s Economic Alternatives”, “Trends Transforming South Africa” and “Mindset for the New Generation on South Africa”, all published by Juta’s.   Dr Azar Jammine’s contribution to McGregor’s Economic Alternatives was used by the ANC as a set-work in the organisation’s internal training programme prior to taking power in 1994.   Dr Azar  Jammine has presented papers on the South African Economy at conferences in Washington, New York, London, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Paris and Phuket.  Dr Azar Jammine is also a non-executive director of Federated Employers Mutual, A M B Holdings, Netcare and Iron Fireman

Dr Azar Jammine has conducted approximately 3000 presentations to leading client corporations and other institutions as well as at conferences dealing with the local and international economic environment.