Research Team

Arabo K. Ewinyu is a researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies working on the Pre-distribution and Ownership project, whose work focuses on providing evidence-based research on how to intervene in the productive segment of the economy to generate equitable outcomes. Arabo has a Master of Commerce in Economics Degree from the University of Witwatersrand. Previously, she has worked as a researcher at the DPRU (University of Cape Town) and before that, she worked as a consultant, gaining crucial experience in collecting, evaluating and analysing data and qualitative economic information for clients across diverse sectors of the economy. She is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate through the SOAS-Wits Joint PhD Programme in Applied Development Economics. Her research interests include labour market dynamics, poverty and inequality studies, and Competition and Regulatory Economics.

Niall Reddy is a Senior Researcher in the Pre-Distribution and Ownership Project. He has a BSc in Economics from the University of Cape Town, a Master's in Political Economy from Kingston University and Paris13. In addition to this, he holds a Master's degree in Sociology from New York University, and he completed his Ph.D. dissertation in the same department. Before undertaking graduate studies, Niall worked as a researcher and educator for the Alternative Information Development Centre in Cape Town. He has worked on a range of topics in the field of political economy, including financialisation, growth models and demand regimes and the politics of elites. His work has appeared in Socio-Economic Review, The Review of Keynesian Economics, Jacobin Magazine, among others.