Economics: Staff

Permanent Academic Staff

   
Nicola Viegi
Professor and Head of Department
South African Reserve Bank Chair in Monetary Policy Studies
PhD (Strathclyde)

Research Interests: Monetary economics, economic policy theory, monetary fiscal policy interdependence, political economy of monetary institutions, economic policy under uncertainty assets prices and monetary policy, regional integration in Africa, political economy of government debt, the economics of colonisation and decolonisation, macromodelling for emerging countries, economic growth and institutions.

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3820
email: [email protected]
Personal website
Curriculum vitae
 
     
Heinrich Bohlmann
Associate Professor
PhD (Monash)

Research Interests: Computable General Equilibrium Modelling; Development Economics; Labour Economics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 6394
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
 
 
     
Martin Breitenbach
Associate Professor
PhD (Vista)

Research Interests: International Trade; International Finance; International Trade and Environment; Economic Efficiency

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3468
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
 
     
Carolyn Chisadza
Associate Professor
PhD (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3134
email: [email protected]
 
     
Matthew Clance
Associate Professor
PhD (Clemson)

Research Interests: International Trade, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 6911
email: [email protected] 
Personal website
 
     
Yoseph Getachew
Professor
PhD (Maastricht)
 
Research Interests: Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Development, Income and Wealth Inequality

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4509
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
     
Rangan Gupta
Professor
PhD (Connecticut)
 
Research Interests: Monetary Theory and Policy; Business Cycles; Time Series Econometrics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3460
email: [email protected]
Personal Website 
 

 
 
     
Roula Inglesi-Lotz
Professor
PhD (Pretoria)

Research Interests: Energy economics, Environmental economics, Economic growth and development, Time series econometrics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4504
email: [email protected]

 
     
Andre Jordaan
Professor
DCom (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Development Economics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3462
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
     
Steve Koch
Professor
PhD (Penn State)
 
Research Interests: Health Economics; Labour Economics; Competition Policy and Industrial Organization Microeconometrics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 5285
Fax: +27 (0)86 6242 444
email: [email protected]
Personal website
 
     
Mpoifeng Molefinyane
Lecturer
PhD (Pretoria)

Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Decision Theory

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4503
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
     
Nara Monkam
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
PhD (Georgia State)

Research Interests: Public Economics; Domestic Resource Mobilization; Tax Policy and Tax Administration (TADAT Assessor);
Fiscal Decentralization; Property Taxation
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3461
 
 
     
Jesse Naidoo
Senior Lecturer
PhD (Chicago)
 
Research Interests: economics of the family, economic demography
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3464
email: [email protected]
 
     
Ruthira Naraidoo
Professor
PhD (Cardiff)
 
Research Interests: Applied Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Political Economics, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Time Series Analysis

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3729
email: [email protected]
 
     
Nicky Nicholls
Associate Professor
PhD (Pretoria)

Research Interests: applied microeconomics; behavioural and experimental economics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4505
email: [email protected]
 
     
Dumakude Nxumalo
Lecturer
MCom (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Industrial Organisation, Competition Economics
Tel: +27 (0)12  420 4506
 
     
Renee van Eyden
Professor
DCom (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Applied Econometrics; Macroeconomic Modelling

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3456
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
 
     
Jan Janse van Rensburg
Lecturer
MCom (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Health Economics

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3467
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
     
Eleni Yitbarek
Senior Lecturer
PhD (Maastricht)  
 
Research Interests:  Measurement of poverty, intergenerational mobility, applied econometrics, and impact evaluation.
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3459
email: [email protected]
 
     
Alexander Zimper
Professor
Dr. rer. pol. (Mannheim)
 
 
Research Interests: Decision Theory, Game Theory, General Equilibrium Theory under Asymmetric Information, Asset Pricing, Financial Markets and Banking Regulation, Bayesian Learning under Ambiguity, Bounded Rationality

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3522
email: [email protected]
Personal website
 
 
     

Affiliated Faculty (Joint With African Tax Institute)

   
Riël Franzsen
Professor and South African Research Chair in Tax Policy and Governance
Director, African Tax Institute
LLD (Stellenbosch)
 
Research Interests: Property and land taxes, transfer duty

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 5538
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
     
Dirk Scholtz
Senior Lecturer
MPhil (Pretoria)

Research Interests: Tax Incentives; Tax Harmonisation; Taxation for Development
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3524
email: [email protected]
Résumé
 
     
Marius van Oordt
Associate Professor
PhD (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Indirect tax policy in developing countries
 
Tel: +27 12  420 3470
Fax: +27 12 420 4508
 
     

Visiting, Emeritus, or Extraordinary Academic Staff

   
Manoel Bittencourt
Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria
PhD (Bristol)
 
Research Interests: Growth and Development Economics
 
 
     
Augustin Fosu
Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria
Professor, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana
PhD (Northwestern)
 
Research Interests: Economic Development (e.g., institutions, growth, and human development; debt, growth, and optimal public sector allocation; trade, growth and development; and growth, inequality and poverty)
 
 
     
Jan van Heerden
Professor Emeritus
PhD (Rice), HED (Unisa)

Research Interests: Microeconomics; Computable General Equilibrium Modelling

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3451
email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae
 
     

Postdoctoral Fellows

   
Vincent Dadam
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Macro modelling of the labour market; Monetary economics.

Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3463
email: [email protected]
 
     
Tumisang Loate
Senior Research Fellow: SARB Chair in Monetary Economics
PhD (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Macroeconomics; Monetary and fiscal policy
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3463
 
     
Maonei Mangwanya
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PhD (Fort Hare)
 
Research Interests: Public Policy, Public Finance Management, Primary Health Care
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4507
 
     
Ekaterina Pirozhkova
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Birkbeck, University of London)
 
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3463
 
     
Tendai Zawaira
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Pretoria)
 
Research Interests: Gender, Development Economics
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 6914
 
     

Administrative Staff

   
Sonja Laing
Departmental Administrator: Research
BA (Pretoria)
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3453
Fax: +27 (0)86 624 2487
email: [email protected]
 
Sindi Magwaza
Departmental Administrator: Postgraduate Studies
Assistant to the Head of Department
BAdmin(Hons) Public Management (Pretoria)
 
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 2423
Fax: +27 (0)86 6242 444
email: [email protected]
 

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