Staff Member Contact List

Academic Staff

	Murray Leibbrandt Director of SALDRU NRF/DSD Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research;labour; rural development; income distribution and poverty; survey econometrics	Email: Murray.Leibbrandt@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2726 Office: 4.57, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Haim Abraham finance; futures and derivatives; monetary economics in a general equilibrium context	Email: Haim.Abraham@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2720 Office: 4.58, Leslie Social Science
	Sean Archer economics of human rights; economics of education training, and economics and ecology of arid zones	Email: Sean.Archer@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4651 Office: 4.69, Leslie Social Science
	Haroon Bhorat Director of the DPRU labour markets and labour market policy; poverty and inequality	Email: Haroon.Bhorat Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5698 Office: 4.89, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Anthony Black development economics, trade and industrial policy; automotive industry, garment industry, foreign direct investment, regional integration	Email: Anthony.Black@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2729 Office: 4.57, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Justine Burns microeconomics; labour; poverty and income distribution; rural development; institutional economics	Email: Justine.Burns@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3506 Office: 4.43, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Reza C. Daniels labour economics, econometrics, development economics, public policy	Email: Reza.Daniels@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2721 Office: 5.63, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Lawrence Edwards international trade; trade, employment and poverty; economic education; general equilibrium modelling	Email: Lawrence.Edwards@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2722 Office: 5.64, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Johann Fedderke growth theory and empirics, applications of time series econometrics and panel data estimation techniques, macroeconomics and macroeconometrics	Email: Johannes.Fedderke@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5238 Office: 6.48, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Farayi Gwenhamo International capital movements and institutions, Construction of economic and political Institutional indices, Property rights and economic performance, Macroeconomics, Time series econometrics	Email: farayigwen@gmail.com Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4521 Office: 4.83, Leslie Social Science
	Shakill Hassan applied economic theory; financial markets; applied mathematical finance	Email: Shakill.Hassan@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3992 Office: 4.73, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Pierre Heistein Tutor co-ordinator	Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4650 Office: 4.66, Leslie Social Science
	Andre Hofmeyr Game theory; behavioural economics; the economics of addiction; political economy	Email: Andre.Hofmeyr@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4362 Office: 5.59, Leslie Social Science
	David Kaplan technology development; technology policy; industrial policy; telecommunications industry; migration of skilled persons	Email: David.Kaplan@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3831 Office: 4.83, Leslie Social Science
	Leigh Lakay Labour and Environmental Economics	Email: Leigh.Lakay@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2724 Office: 4.80, Leslie Social Science
	Anthony Leiman environmental and resource economics; cost-benefit analysis; informal sector	Email: Tony.Leiman@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2725 Office: 4.63, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Cecil Mlatsheni youth and the labour market; participation, search and unemployment; fertility and labour market participation; the brain drain and skills migration.	Email: Cecil.Mlatsheni@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3507 Office: 4.45, Leslie Social Science
	Mike Morris Global value chains, globalisation, international competitiveness, world class manufacturing, innovation, clusters and learning networks, industrial policy, sectoral analysis (clothing and textiles, autos, furniture, commodities), impact of China on Africa, African industrialisation	Email: Mike.Morris@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3831 Office: 4.47, Leslie Social Science
	Edwin Muchapondwa community based natural resource management; nature-based tourism and ecosystems; valuation of non-market environmental amenities; applied environmental economics and sustainable development	Email: Edwin.Muchapondwa@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5242 Office: 4.63.1, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Samson Muradzikwa infrastructure; development economics; trade	Email: Samson.Muradzikwa@uct.ac.za
	Nisreen Narker economic education; labour	Email: Nisreen.Narker@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4510 Office: 4.71, Leslie Social Science
	Nicoli Nattrass Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit (ASRU) labour; unemployment; distribution; the socio-economic impact of providing antiretroviral treatment to people living with AIDS; welfare reform and the basic income grant.	Email: Nicoli.Nattrass@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3567 Office: 4.50, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Neryvia Pillay Risk measurement, financial markets	Email: Neryvia.Pillay@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2730 Office: 4.77, Leslie Social Science
	Don Ross game theory; international economics and infrastructure development as applied to Africa; industrial economics in Africa; picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of learning and addiction; philosophy of science; and the historical and philosophical foundations of economics.	Email: Don.Ross@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4652 Office: 5.56, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Mare Sarr Institutions and Development, Natural Resources, Biodiversity, North-South relations in the life sciences industries, Intellectual Property Rights and R&D	Email: Mare.Sarr@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2982 Office: 5.57, Leslie Social Science
	Witness Simbanegavi industrial organization; international finance	Email: Witness.Simbanegavi@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5176 Office: 6.45, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Leonard Smith economics education; academic development	Email: Leonard.Smith@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4383 Office: 4.70, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Albert Touna Mama Macroeconomics (households’ consumption/investment behavior). International Macroeconomics (current account imbalances, sovereign borrowing). Dynamic stochastic equilibrium models. Development Economics (informal insurance arrangements, terms of trade shocks, structural changes).	Email: Albert.TounaMama@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4879 Office: 5.61 Leslie Commerce Website: Click Here
	Corné Van Walbeek the economics of tobacco control and agricultural deregulation; evaluating economic forecasts; economics education.	Email: Cornelis.VanWalbeek@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4689 Office: 4.75, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Nicola Viegi Macroeconomic Policy Theory, Monetary Policy and Institutions, Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination, Macroeconomics in Emerging Countries, Economic and Monetary Integration in Africa	Email: Nicola.Viegi@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2763 Office: 4.61, Leslie Social Science
	Martine Visser behavioural and experimental economics applications to natural resource utilization; environmental and natural resource economics; poverty, inequality and sustainability; social institutions and networks; applied game theory and microeconometrics; valuation techniques	Email: Martine.Visser@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3551 Office: 4.82, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Francis Wilson Director of Data First Resource Unit poverty and development; unemployment; household survey data collection; water policy	Email: Francis.Wilson@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 4707 Office: 5.55, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Martin Wittenberg labour economics; economics of the household; analysis of time-use data; economics of predatory behaviour; measurement of poverty; microeconometrics; spatial economics and intergovernmental fiscal relations.	Email: Martin.Wittenberg@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5244 Office: 6.53.1, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here
	Ingrid Woolard measurement of poverty; income inequality; labour economics; social assistance	Email: Ingrid.Woolard@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5170 Office: 6.46, Leslie Social Science Website: Click Here

Support and Administrative Staff

The Support staff are integral to the administration and maintenance of the Department as a whole.

Support and Administrative Staff

	Gadija Allison Department Manager	Email: Gadija.Allison@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5178 Office: 4.53, Leslie Social Science
	Paula Bassingthwaighte Administrator (Postgraduate Studies)	Email: Paula.Bassingthwaighte@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 3393 Office: 4.56, Leslie Social Science
	Yasmina Charles Administrator (Postgraduate Studies)	Email: Yasmina.Charles@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2733 Office: 4.55, Leslie Social Science
	Yoemna Mosaval Administrative Assistant	Email: Yoemna.Mosaval@uct.ac.za Phone: +27 (0)21 650 2727 Office: 4.53, Leslie Social Science

External Associates/Faculty

Although not officially a part of the School of Economics, the following research associates provide an invaluable link to the department.

External Associates

Malcolm Keswell Associate Professor (Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University) & Honorary Research Associate (SALDRU, School of Economics, University of Cape Town)

Email: Malcolm.Keswell@uct.ac.za