Professor Murray Leibbrandt
University of Cape Town
Murray Leibbrandt holds the UCT Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He is a former Director of UCT's Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit and previously held the DST/DSI-NRF Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research at UCT. Murray is currently ACEIR's Director. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association and is a Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER. He has published widely in development economics using survey data and especially panel data to analyse South Africa’s poverty, inequality, and labour market dynamics.