Murray Leibbrandt

Murray Leibbrandt

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55 Hillhouse Avenue

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About

Murray Leibbrandt is an Emeritus Professor and a Senior Research Scholar within the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. He is the Director of ARUA’s African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research, the African lead on the Africa/ Europe Cluster of Research Excellence for Inequality, Poverty and Deprivation and a co-Director of the African Inequality Review. He is a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER and serves on the South African Presidency/African Union Africa Expert Panel.

He served as the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Poverty and Inequality, at UCT, a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association and the President of the African Econometric Society. He was a member of President Mandela’s Presidential Labour Market Commission and Deputy President Ramaphosa’s Panel of Experts on the National Minimum Wage. 

His research focusses on South African and African poverty‚ inequality and labour market dynamics.

Education

  • PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1993
  • MA, University of Notre Dame, 1986
  • Bachelor's in Economics, Rhodes University, South Africa, 1983

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