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SEF Economics Division

	Prudence Magejo Head of the SEF Economics Division Associate Professor prudence.magejo@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8111 New Commerce Building (NCB) 226 Research interests: Labour, poverty and inequality issues
	Sedjro Alovokpinhou Senior lecturer (Dr) sedjro.alovokpinhou@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8190 New Commerce Building (NCB) 245 Research interests: Macroeconomics and Finance Related Issues
	Nasreen Ameen Tutor nasreen.ameen@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8076 New Commerce Building (NCB) 231
	Miracle Benhura Associate Professor miracle.benhura@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8123 New Commerce Building (NCB) 204 Research interests: Labour and development (applied microeconomics)
	Fatima Bhoola Lecturer fatima.bhoola@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8069 New Commerce Building (NCB) 250 Research interests: Economic growth and macroeconomic volatility
	Frikkie Booysen Professor PPS Chair in Health Economics frederik.booysen@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8097 New Commerce Building (NCB) 242 Research interests: Health Economics more generally, with a focus on health inequalities, the socio-economics of health, and family health and development.
	Daniela Casale Professor daniela.casale@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8085 New Commerce Building (NCB) 248 Research interests: Labour economics, economic demography, gender economics, early childhood development
	Kenneth Creamer Senior Lecturer (Dr) kenneth.creamer@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8127 New Commerce Building (NCB) 257 Research interests: Monetary policy, fiscal policy, macroeconomic policy, political economy, and international economics
	Chris Desmond Professor Derek Schrier and Cecily Cameron Chair in Development Economics christopher.desmond@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8144 New Commerce Building (NCB) 128 Research interests: Human development, economic evaluation, and life course and health.
	Greg Farrell Adjunct Professor gregory.farrell@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8301 New Commerce Building (NCB) 228 Research interests: Applied macroeconomics and time series econometrics
	Ismail Fasanya Associate Professor ismail.fasanya@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 134A +27 11 717 8840 Research interests: Macroeconomic modeling with special interest in Energy Economics and Finance
	Usanda Gqwaru Lecturer usanda.gqwaru@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8115 New Commerce Building (NCB) 133 Research interests: Development economics and industrial policy
	Tendai Gwatidzo Associate Professor Coordinator, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) tendai.gwatidzo@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8114 New Commerce Building (NCB) 208 Research interests: Capital structure, banking sector competition, efficiency in the banking sector and access to finance
	Gilad Isaacs Lecturer (Dr) Gilad.Isaacs@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8216 New Commerce Building (NCB) 233 Research Interests: South Africa, Financialisation, Labour Markets, Minimum Wages, Macroeconomics
	Caro Janse Van Rensburg Lecturer caro.jansevanrensburg@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8039 New Commerce Building (NCB) 201A Research interests: History of Economic Thought, Economic History, Monetary Policy, and Feminist Economics
	Rubina Jogee Lecturer rubina.jogee@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8093 New Commerce Building (NCB) 129 Research interests: Development economics, microeconomics and behavioural economics
	Lyndal Keeton Lecturer (Dr) lyndal.keeton@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8065 New Commerce Building (NCB) 200 Research interests: Public economics, intergovernmental grants, economic history of Southern Africa, institutions, workers compensation and national lottery
	Dambala Kutela Associate Professor dambala.kutela@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8134 New Commerce Building (NCB) 203 Research interests: Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, and Economic Theory
	Jérôme Lange Senior Lecturer (Dr) jerome.lange@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8096 New Commerce Building (NCB) 243 Research interests: Population and Development, History of Economic Thought, Economic Systems, African Economic Thought.
	Nyasha Mahonye Senior Lecturer (Dr) nyasha.mahonye@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8105 New Commerce Building (NCB) 205 Research interests: Debt, aid, institutions, financial and gender economics
	Christopher Malikane Associate Professor Head, The Macro-Finance Analysis Group (MFAG) christopher.malikane@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8109 New Commerce Building (NCB) 135 Research interests: Macroeconomics and finance related issues
	Cyril May Senior Lecturer (Dr) cyril.may@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8104 New Commerce Building (NCB) 249 Research interests: International finance
	Nobantu Mbeki Lecturer (Dr) nobantu.mbeki@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 253 Research interests: Post keynesian pricing theory and post keynesian theory of the firm
	Mthokozisi Mlilo Senior Lecturer (Dr) mthokozisi.mlilo@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8099 New Commerce Building (NCB) 202 Research interests: Macroeconomics, fiscal policy and public economics
	Liberty Mncube Associate Professor liberty.mncube@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 9194 New Commerce Building (NCB) 206A Research interests: Competition policy, economics and industrial organisation
	Lumkile Mondi Senior Lecturer (Dr) lumkile.mondi@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8262 New Commerce Building (NCB) 255 Research interests: Development and financial economics
	Nimisha Naik Lecturer nimisha.naik@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8125 New Commerce Building (NCB) 200A Research interests: General macroeconomics
	Sibulele Nkunzi Lecturer Programme Coordinator, Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation (EPOG) sibulele.nkunzi@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8042 New Commerce Building (NCB) 244 Research interests: Industrial Policy, Industrialization, Political Economy of Development, The Role of the State in Economic Development, Qualitative Case Studies in the Manufacturing Sector
	Adeola Oyenubi Associate Professor adeola.oyenubi@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8365 New Commerce Building (NCB) 119 Research interests: Programme evaluation, information theory, portfolio optimization and labour market research
	Dorrit (Dori) Posel Distinguished Professor Helen Suzman Chair in Political Economy dorrit.posel@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 201 Research interests: Marriage and family formation, labour force participation, labour migration, economics of language and measures of wellbeing
	Gareth Roberts Lecturer (Dr) gareth.roberts@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 132 +27 11 717 8079 Research interests: Evaluation of education and employment interventions. Behavioural experiments on information avoidance or empathy
	Aylit Romm Senior Lecturer (Dr) aylit.romm@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8137 New Commerce Building (NCB) 229 Research interests: Decision theory, economics of uncertainty, retirement, savings and life cycle behaviours and topics analyzing microeconomic data
	Volker Schöer Associate Professor Head: African Microeconomics Research Umbrella (AMERU) volker.schoer@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8107 New Commerce Building (NCB) 131 Research interests: Job search and job matching, education intervention in primary schools and RCT in transport industry
	Aldo Sitoe Lecturer (Dr) aldo.sitoe@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8254 New Commerce Building (NCB) 206 Research interests: Public choice, organizational economics, fiscal federalism, theory of the firm and voting rules for an optimal provision of public goods
	Bruno Tinel Professor bruno.tinel@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8120 New Commerce Building (NCB) 207 Research interests: Macroeconomics and finance: macro dynamics and public finance, public debt; History of economic thought, wage and labour relations, determinants of the division of labour, subcontracting relations
	Yuxiang Ye Senior lecturer (Dr) yuxiang.ye@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8195 New Commerce Building (NCB) 246 Research interests: Energy economics, energy poverty, domestic energy demand

SEF Finance Division

	Chimwemwe Chipeta Head of the SEF Finance Division Professor chimwemwe.chipeta@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8145 New Commerce Building (NCB) 120 Research interests: Corporate finance, specifically mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, capital structure and dividend policy.
	Aneesa Adam Senior Tutor aneesa.adam@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8091 New Commerce Building (NCB) 126
	Christo Auret Professor christo.auret@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8131 New Commerce Building (NCB) 121 Research interests: Investment theory - in particular empirical validation of internationally formulated investment theory, Market efficiency, Asset pricing, Market returns, Investment management, Share market studies, Corporate finance, Dividends, Corporate governance, Commodity futures markets
	James Britten Senior Lecturer james.britten@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8193 New Commerce Building (NCB) 127 Research interests: Asset Pricing and factor investment.
	Moinak Maiti Associate Professor FirstRand Chair in Financial Data Science moinak.maiti@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 78066 New Commerce Building (NCB) 227 Research interests: Asset Pricing, data Science, financial econometrics, fintech, and sustainability.
	Ms Lerato Mapela Lecturer lerato.mapela@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8206 New Commerce Building (NCB) 254
	Douglas Mbululu Lecturer douglas.mbululu@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8073 New Commerce Building (NCB) 122
	David McClelland Lecturer david.mcclelland@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 126A Research interests: Asset pricing, liquidity and portfolio management.
	Mosa Moletsane Lecturer mosa.moletsane@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 118
	Delane Naidu Lecturer delane.naidu@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8499 New Commerce Building (NCB) 125 Research interests: International Finance and Corporate Finance, specifically ownership structures, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and foreign direct investment.
	Daniel Page Associate Professor daniel.page@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8105 New Commerce Building (NCB) 123 Research interests: Asset Pricing, Asset Management, Investment Styles, Factor Modelling.
	Yudhvir Seetharam Associate Professor yudhvir.seetharam@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8117 New Commerce Building (NCB) 124 Research interests:Behavioural finance, asset pricing, FinTech, quantitative finance and risk management.
	Gary van Vuuren Professor gary.vanvuuren@wits.ac.za +27 11 717 8105 New Commerce Building (NCB) 123 Research interest: Quantitative finance (including financial risk measurement and management and portfolio analysis)

Administration

Assistant to the Head of School
	Ms Queelian Diphapo +27 11 71 78082 queelian.diphapo@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 115
Academic and Administrative Enquiries
For 1^st year and 3^rd year Ecos:
	Ms Thandi Chamane +27 11 71 78084 thandi.chamane@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 107
For 2^nd, 3^rd year Finance, Hons Economics/ADE/Finance, Masters Ecos/Econ Sc/ADE/Health Ecos:
	Ms Masego Kubu +27 11 71 78004 masego.kubu@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) A3
For 1^st(theory) & 2^nd year Ecos, Masters Finance and PhD (registered students only):
	Mr Molefe Rampa +27 11 71 78112 molefe.rampa@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) A5
Postgraduate Administrator
	Ms Ntomboxolo Duka +27 11 71 78298 ntomboxolo.duka@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) A2
Postgraduate Applications Enquiries
	Ms Kamo Nhlapo +27 11 71 78074 pgqueries.sef@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) A1
Operations Manager
	Ms Mamosa Moletsane +27 11 71 78119 m amosa.moletsane@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 113
Senior Finance Officer
	Mr Tebogo Mmolawa +27 11 71 78121 tebogo.mmolawa@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 118
Finance intern
	Ms Lerato Mapela +27 11 71 78504 lerato.mapela@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB), West Campus
LAN Administrator
	Mr Lucas Nkuna +27 11 71 78078 lucas.nkuna@wits.ac.za New Commerce Building (NCB) 136

Economics Visiting Fellows

Economics visiting fellows
	Oluyele Akinkugbe Visiting Professor Oluyele.Akinkugbe@wits.ac.za, olu_akinkugbe@yahoo.com Research interests: Forensic Economics, International Finance, Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Development Policy Analysis
	Johane Dikgang Visiting Professor johane.dikgang@wits.ac.za Research interests: Environmental Policy, Environmental Valuation, Conservation Economics, Water Management and Policy, Energy and Development, Agriculture and Food Systems, Climate Change, & Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
	Megha Mukim Visiting Adjunct Professor megha.mukim@wits.ac.za Research interests: Urban Economics, Trade & Economic Geography, Industrial Organization, Development & Climate Policy
	Nicolas Pons-Vignon Visiting Senior Fellow (Dr) Nicolas.Pons-Vignon@wits.ac.za
	Laura Rossouw Visiting Senior Research (Dr) laura.rossouw@wits.ac.za Research interests: Economics of tobacco control, economic evaluations of health interventions, the economic impact of tobacco and alcohol use, demand-side factors related to health, and maternal, infant and child health
	Mario Scerri Visiting Senior Research (Prof) mario.scerri@wits.ac.za Research interests: Systems of Innovation and economic development, Economic integration in Africa Science, technology and innovation policy
	Stefan Schirmer Visiting Associate Professor Stefan.Schirmer@wits.ac.za
	Chris Torr Visiting Professor christopher.torr@wits.ac.za

	Sylvia Gottschalk Senior Research Fellow (Dr) S.Gottschalk@mdx.ac.uk Research interests: Financial Economics, Fintech, Green Finance, Applied Computational Finance, Applied Microeconomics
	Michael Machokoto Senior Research Fellow (Dr) michael.machokoto@wits.ac.za

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Assistant to the Head of School

Ms Queelian Diphapo

Academic and Administrative Enquiries

For 1st year and 3rd year Ecos:

Ms Thandi Chamane

For 2nd, 3rd year Finance, Hons Economics/ADE/Finance, Masters Ecos/Econ Sc/ADE/Health Ecos:

Ms Masego Kubu

For 1st(theory) & 2nd year Ecos, Masters Finance and PhD (registered students only):

Mr Molefe Rampa

Postgraduate Administrator

Ms Ntomboxolo Duka

Postgraduate Applications Enquiries

Ms Kamo Nhlapo

Operations Manager

Ms Mamosa Moletsane

Senior Finance Officer

Mr Tebogo Mmolawa

Finance intern

Ms Lerato Mapela

LAN Administrator

Mr Lucas Nkuna

Oluyele Akinkugbe

Johane Dikgang

Megha Mukim

Nicolas Pons-Vignon

Laura Rossouw

Mario Scerri

Stefan Schirmer

Chris Torr

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For 1^st year and 3^rd year Ecos:

For 2^nd, 3^rd year Finance, Hons Economics/ADE/Finance, Masters Ecos/Econ Sc/ADE/Health Ecos:

For 1^st(theory) & 2^nd year Ecos, Masters Finance and PhD (registered students only):