Department bids farewell to two stalwarts
At the end of 2021, two long-serving members of the Department's academic staff are retiring.
Prof Andrie Schoombee joined the Department in 1983 and served as Chair of the Department since 2000. He is widely recognized as having steered the Department through transformative changes while maintaining core values of academic excellence and collegial and supportive environment for staff members. He specialized in monetary economics.
Click here for more on Prof Schoombee's career and thoughts on the Faculty's news blog.
Le Roux Burrows (pictured here with his wife, Ria at a Departmental function this year at which the contributions of the two retiring staff members were celebrated) will leave after 37 years of loyal service, having been appointed as lecturer in 1985. Academically, Le Roux specialised in quantitative, macro and applied general equilibrium economics, and he was particularly appreciated for his dedicated service and involved in many areas of service delivery in the Department and the wider University and community institutional structures.
Click here for more on Le Roux Burrows's career and thoughts on the Faculty's news bog.
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