Jon Hopkins is the Chief Business Development Officer at U-turn in Cape Town South Africa where he is responsible for all U-turn’s social enterprises, research and growth into new areas.

Jon has published research on homelessness, including in the International Journal
on Homelessness and was the author of the Cost of Homelessness in Cape Town study. In
2023 he completed his MBA from Stellenbosch Business School. Before moving to South
Africa in 2016, Jon spent a decade working in the field of HIV, sexual and reproductive
health and gender for an international non-profit and the United Nations. Jon is married and
has three children.