Centres, Chairs, Institutes and Units of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

Name of entity	Person responsible	Nature of activities
African Tax Institute (ATI)	Prof Annet Oguttu +27(0)12 420 5538 [email protected]	Postgraduate programmes (MPhil: Taxation and PhD in Tax Policy) and short course training as well as research in tax policy and tax administration in Africa.
Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute(ALLI) Department of Business Management	Prof Derick de Jongh +27(0)12 420 3386 [email protected]	Programmes and research on responsible leadership.
Business Incubator Department of Business Management	Prof Alex Antonites +27(0)12 420 3119 [email protected]	Creating an enabling ecosystem which nurtures innovation, drives viable business models and facilitates connections with the right networks to make abstract ideas tangible reality.
Centre for Entrepreneurship Department of Business Management	Prof Alex Antonites +27(0)12 420 3119 [email protected]	Creating a comprehensive entrepreneurship pipeline from ideation and pre-incubation, advanced technology-orientated incubation and co-working space for entrepreneurial alumni.
Centre for the Future of Work (CFoW) Department of Business Management	Dr Wesley Rosslyn-Smith +27(0)12 420 6364 [email protected]	Conducting research and provide advisory services pertaining to the Future of Work within an African context.
Chair in Customer Experience Department of Marketing Management	Prof Adré Schreuder [email protected]	Advancing formal training, research, specialist advisory services, testing/ experimenting forums and labs to co-create the future of Experience Management as a central discipline.
Chair in Municipal Finance in Africa African Tax Institute	Prof Nara Monkam +27(0)12 420 5538 [email protected]	Scholarly research Postgraduate programmes focusing on municipal finances and related issues Upskilling and training of government officials from ministries responsible for finances, local government and planning, as well as city councillors and officials
Mamelodi Business Hub Department of Business Management	Prof Alex Antonites +27(0)12 842 3580 [email protected]	Facilitating entrepreneurship and small business development in and around the Tshwane community through entrepreneurship mentoring, entrepreneurship training, business advice and business counselling processes.
South African Research Chair in Tax Policy and Governance Department of Economics	Prof Riel Franzsen 420 5538 [email protected]	Postgraduate research in tax policy, administration and governance in especially the following areas: Property taxes, land taxes and property transfer taxes Fiscal decentralization Natural resource taxation Tax and rural development The use of information technology (IT) and geographic information systems (GIS) in the tax environment International taxation
South African Reserve Bank Chair in Monetary Policy Studies Department of Economics	Prof Nicola Viegi +27(0)12 450 3820 [email protected]
SARChI Chair in Just Energy Transition Department of Economics Energy Economics Research Unit	Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz [email protected]
Public Policy Hub Department of Economics	Prof Nara Monkam +27(0)12 420 3461 [email protected]	The UP Public Policy Hub (PPH) is envisioned to foster greater adoption of sustainable, evidence-based public policies in Africa by promoting collaboration between academic research and government public policy through the co-creation of transdisciplinary and policy-relevant research for better development outcomes in Africa.
Energy Economics Research Unit Department of Economics	Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz [email protected]	The Energy Economics Research Unit seeks to provide evidence-based, impactful, data-driven research on energy and environmental economics issues for South Africa, the African continent and the world.
Unit for Forensic Accounting Department of Auditing	Adv Hannes Bezuidenhout +27(0)12 420 3802 [email protected] Ms Lynne vanTonder +27(0)12 420 3407 [email protected]	Research and training in fraud and forensic issues.