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Johannes Fedderke is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He is currently the Director of Economic Research Southern Africa and of the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. His research interests centre on the determinants of economic growth, with special interest in the role of institutions in long run economic development. His published work includes empirical and theoretical contributions, and has provided cross-country, panel and country specific time series evidence on the interaction of growth and institutions. He has contributed various policy research reports to the South African National Treasury and Departments of Trade & Industry, Arts, Science & Technology, the World Bank, and the South African Parliament. Currently he is the Managing Editor of the South African Journal of Economics, is serving as a board member of the National Research Foundation, is an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and is a past president of the African Econometrics Society.
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Jesmond Blumenfeld, formerly of Brunel University, United Kingdom, and St Peter’s College, Oxford University, is a senior consultant for Oxford Analytica.
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Antoinette Handley is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Toronto. She is a graduate of Natal University. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and subsequently a Fullbright Fellow at Princeton.
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Francis Davis is a Fellow of Blackfriars, Oxford and visiting Lecturer in social enterprise and community development at the University of Cambridge. He has been appointed specialist policy advisor to the UK Secretary of State, John Denham. Francis is also a leading commentator on social policy and religion. His research focuses on the innovation potential of voluntary action, philanthropy and social enterprise in public sector reform, corporate accountability, and civic renewal.
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Raphael de Kadt is Professor of Political Sciences at St Augustine’s College, Johannesburg. His interests lie in political theory and its implications for policy development and modernisation studies.
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Harry Zarenda
Harry Zarenda is a long-serving member of the School of Economic and
Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is
currently Divisional Head of Economics and Acting Head of the School.
He has taught and researched issues relating to Development Economics
and has a strong research interest in Trade and Industrial Strategies
in South Africa. Harry Zarenda has spent several sabbaticals abroad- at
SOAS, Cambridge ( UK), Yale University- and has had extensive
experience on the editorial boards of several international and local
journals.
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John Luiz is a professor at the Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, specialising in economics, international business, the business environment, and business, society, and government.
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Mary Tomlinson is one of South Africa’s experts in housing policy and delivery.
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Alex Amtaika is a senior lecturer of politics at the University of KwaZulu Natal. He obtained his PhD from Wits University. His field of interest lies in local government, and African politics. He has just returned from a year’s sabbatical as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Charles Simkins is a distinguished economist. He is Professor of Economics at St Augustine’s College and formerly held the Helen Suzman Chair of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and is a recipient of the Helen Suzman Chevening Fellowship, a UK Foreign Office award.
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