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 ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4623-2379

Carolyn Chisadza Associate Professor PhD (Pretoria) Research Interests: Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3134 email: [email protected] Personal website Curriculum vitae

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 Curriculum vitae

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 Curriculum vitae

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] Personal Website Curriculum vitae

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 Curriculum vitae

Tumisang Loate Senior Lecturer PhD (Pretoria) Research Interests: Macroeconomics; Monetary and fiscal policy Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3463 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae

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 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae other pages: Google Scholar; ResearchGate; LinkedIn; Twitter

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] Curriculum vitae

Nicky Nicholls Associate Professor PhD (Pretoria) Research Interests: applied microeconomics; behavioural and experimental economics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4505 email: [email protected] Personal website Curriculum vitae

Dumakude Nxumalo Lecturer MCom (Pretoria) Research Interests: Industrial Organisation, Competition Economics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4506 email: dumakude.nxumalo@up.ac.za Curriculum vitae

Daniel Opolot Senior Lecturer PhD (Maastricht) Research Interests: Game Theory, Social and Economic Networks, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3465 email: [email protected] Personal website Curriculum vitae

Renee van Eyden Professor DCom (Pretoria) Research Interests: Applied Econometrics; Macroeconomic Modelling Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3456 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae

Eleni Yitbarek Associate Professor PhD (Maastricht) Research Interests: Measurement of poverty, intergenerational mobility, applied econometrics, and impact evaluation. Tel: +27 (0)12 420 3459 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae

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 Curriculum vitae

Affiliated Faculty (Joint With African Tax Institute)
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

Visiting, Emeritus, or Extraordinary Academic Staff
Manoel Bittencourt Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria PhD (Bristol) Research Interests: Growth and Development Economics email: [email protected] Personal website Curriculum vitae

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) email: [email protected] Personal website

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
Taiwo Afinowi Postdoctoral Fellow PhD (Witwatersrand) Research Interests: Built Environment, Urban Renewal and Regeneration, Global Development Agendas, Urban Planning, Sustainable Cities, Digital Twin Cities, and African Cities. Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4207 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae

Akingbade Aimola Postdoctoral Fellow PhD (UNISA) Research Interests: Public Finance and Policy, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Risk Management, Environmental Economics, Sovereign/Public debt Management. Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4207 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae

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] Curriculum vitae

Alanda Venter Postdoctoral Fellow PhD (Pretoria) Research Interests: Energy Economics; Environmental Economics; Political Economy; Developmental Economics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 4207 email: [email protected] Personal website Curriculum vitae

Tendai Zawaira Postdoctoral Fellow PhD (Pretoria) Research Interests: Gender, Development Economics Tel: +27 (0)12 420 6914 email: [email protected] Curriculum vitae

Administrative Staff
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]
Wandile Xaba Administrator Tel: +27 (0)12 420 2413 Email: [email protected]