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People at Ersa . . .
 Johannes Fedderke - Director
Johannes Fedderke is Head of the School of Economics, at the University of Cape Town, and the Director of Economic Research Southern Africa. His research interests center 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. Recent extensions of his work have examined the effectiveness of performance intensity of aid in dynamic theoretical models, and the impact of governance on growth employing dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation techniques. He obtained an MPhil and PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and has held tenured positions at the City University of London, and the University of the Witwatersrand. He has served as Visiting Professor at the RAND Graduate School, Oxford, and the University of the Witwatersrand.
 Dori Posel - Deputy Director
Dori Posel holds an NRF Research Chair (SARChI) in Economic Development in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Her areas of specialisation include migration, labour, household behaviour, and household survey design and analysis. She has published widely on research relating to labour migration and remittance behaviour; changes in labour force participation and employment; the determinants of earnings; and intrahousehold allocation. Dori holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). She has been the recipient of numerous research awards and fellowships, including the Vice-Chancellor's Research Award in 2005. Before moving to the School of Development Studies in 2007, Dori was an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at UKZN.
 Jan van Heerden - Deputy Director
Jan finished a PhD in Economics at Rice University in Houston, Texas in the beginning of 1997. He is currently the Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria. His research interests are computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling applications, such as carbon and water taxation; the feasibility of food vouchers for South Africa; the impact of higher education on the SA economy, etc.
 Nicola Viegi - Deputy Director
Nicola Viegi is associate professor in Economics at the University of Cape Town. A graduate from the Scottish Doctoral Programme in Economics, he has held positions at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and he is currently Visiting Scholar at De Nederlashe Bank. His main areas of research are economic policy theory, macroeconomic modeling and regional macroeconomic integration. Current research includes inflation targeting under uncertainty, monetary policy and assets prices, macroeconomic integration in Southern Africa.
 Gloria Halland - ERSA Administrator
Office 4.48, 4th Floor, Leslie Social Sciences Building
Upper Campus, Rondebosch
University of Cape Town
Phone: 27 21 650-5239
Fax: 27 21 650-2854
Tania Jacobs - Senior Secretary
Economic Research Southern Africa
Leslie Social Sciences Building
Upper Campus, Rondebosch
University of Cape Town
Tel: +27 21 650-5959
Fax: +27 21 650-2854
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