Professor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of the Free State 2016/17 Fulbright Research Scholar at Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, at Columbia University Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) for SA-TIED prgramme 2022-2024 Areas of research focus: macroeconomics, fiscal policy, public finance, public-private partnerships 2009 Visiting scholar at IMF Three stints of two months each in 2007, 2010 and 2012 seconded to OECD