Staff Profiles
DPRU Staff
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Haroon Bhorat Director Expertise: Labour Economics, Poverty, Income Distribution, Inclusive Growth, Minimum Wages. |
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Morné Oosthuizen Deputy Director Expertise: Labour markets, poverty, inequality, prices, and economic demography. |
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Caitlin Allen Junior Researcher Expertise: Behavioural Economics, Microeconometrics, and Small Business Development |
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Zaakhir Asmal Senior Researcher Expertise: Labour Economics, Development Economics, Competition and Regulatory Economics, Poverty and Inequality, Education and Skills Development. |
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Mira Blumberg Pahad Asst. Programme Manager Expertise: Project Management, Reporting, Planning and organising resources and events. |
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Robert Hill Junior Researcher Expertise: Labour economics, education and behavioural economics, all with a focus on econometric application |
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Tim Köhler Junior Researcher Expertise: Economics of Education, Poverty and Inequality, Labour Economics, Behavioural Economics, Health Economics, Environmental Economics |
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Kezia Lilenstein Programme Manager Expertise: Project Management, Labour Economics, Analysis of Survey Data, Development Economics. |
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Jabulile Monnakgotla Junior Researcher Expertise: Macroeconomics, Finance, International Trade, Development and Growth. |
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Christopher Rooney Junior Researcher Expertise: Economics of Education, Behavioural Economics and Development Economics. |
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Benjamin Stanwix Senior Researcher Expertise: Applied Economics, Labour Economics, Economic and Social History. |
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Francois Steenkamp Senior Researcher Expertise: International trade (Export patterns and dynamics), Economic development, Self-employment. |
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Amy Thornton Researcher Expertise: Labour Economics, Development Economics, Behavioural Economics, Economics as a Social Science. |
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Sarah Marriott Communications Manager Expertise: Publishing, Communications, Marketing, Events, PR and Media Liaison. |
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CURRENTLY RECRUITING Operations and Finance Coordinator Expertise: Grants and Finance Management |
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Wadia Joseph PA to the Director & Administrative Assistant Expertise: Personal Admin, Department Admin, Events Management. Email |
DPRU Associates
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Derek Yu Derek is currently a Professor and Chairperson of Department of Economics at the University of the Western Cape. His research interests are Labour Economics and Development Economics. |
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Adaiah Lilenstein Adaiah is currently working as a consultant for DPRU and Funda Wande. The latter is an NPO focused on improving South African education outcomes. Adaiah has particular skills in quantitative data analysis as well as survey design and program implementation. Her research interest is in Development Economics - especially education, poverty, inequality, and the labour market. |
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Karmen Naidoo Karmen is currently a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests are in development economics and labour economics. She is also a research assistant at the Political Economy Research Institute. |
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Gracelin Baskaran Gracelin is a Consultant Economist for the World Bank covering the Southern Africa region, and a Senior Research Fellow at the DPRU. Her research interests include trade, competitiveness, natural resource management, and inclusive growth. |