Honorary Professors

The Department is proud to associate itself with a number of high profile individuals from outside the university, who collaborate with us on teaching, research and other areas.

Andrew Donaldson
Former Deputy Director General, National Treasury
Andreas Freytag
Professor of Economics, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Chair for Economic Policy
Rudolf Gouws
Former Chief Economist of Rand Merchant Bank
Francois Groepe
Former Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank
Michael Jordaan
Former Chief Executive Officer of First National Bank
Jac Laubscher
Former Chief Economist of Sanlam
Franco Malerba
Director of KITeS-Cespri, Bocconi University and Professor of Applied Economics - Bocconi University, Milan - Italy
Tito Mboweni
Minister of Finance
Liberty Mncube
Associate Professor, WITS and Managing Director FTI Consulting
Kuben Naidoo
Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank
Léonce Ndikumana
Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics and Director, African Policy Program, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Professor and Chair of Social and Economic History, University of Utrecht

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