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Ingrid Woolard
Born (1970-10-09) October 9, 1970 (age 54)
South Africa
Academic career
FieldPublic economics
Labour economics
InstitutionStellenbosch University
Alma materUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal (B.Sc.)
University of South Africa (BA)
University of Cape Town (Ph.D.)
ContributionsLead author of the chapter on inequality for the prestigious International Panel on Social Progress
Chair of the Employment Conditions Commission (ECC) from 2011 to 2014
Member of the Davis Tax Committee since 2013
PI of South Africa's national household panel survey, the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), since 2007
Member of the Panel of Experts for the Design of the Expanded Public Works Programme, National Department of Public Works in 2013
Member of the Committee for Evaluation of the Department of Environmental and Water Affairs Public Works Programmes in 2005
Member of the Board of Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) from 2011 onwards
External Peer Advisor for the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation from 2011 onwards

Ingrid Woolard is dean at Stellenbosch University's faculty of economic and management sciences and professor of economics at Stellenbosch University.[1] She was a professor of economics at the University of Cape Town and a Research Associate of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU). Her research focuses primarily on Labour markets, social protection and assistance, poverty and inequality, tax policy, fiscal policy, unemployment, and survey methodology.[2][3]

Education

Woolard read for a B.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics and Economics from the University of Natal (Durban), and BA (Hons) in Economics from UNISA, She then proceeded to the University of Cape Town where she obtained a PhD in Economics.

Career

Ingrid was previously the Chair of the Employment Conditions Commission which makes sectoral recommendations in sectors in which collective bargaining is weak (e.g. domestic work, farm work, hospitality and retail).[3] She consults regularly for various South African government departments and international organizations such as the World Bank, the ILO and the OECD. Since 2007, Woolard has been one of the Principal Investigators in the long-running the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), South Africa's national household panel survey.

Woolard has been a member of the Davis Tax Committee since 2013.[2]

Bibliography

Journal articles

Woolard has written dozens of peer-reviewed articles including:

  • Ingrid Woolard; Murray Leibbrandt; Arden Finn; Jonathan Argen (2010). "Trends in South African income distribution and poverty since the fall of apartheid" (PDF). OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers (101): 1–93. doi:10.1787/5kmms0t7p1ms-en.
  • Ingrid Woolard; Abhijit Banerjee; Sebastian Galiani; Jim Levinsohn; Zoe McLaren (2008). "Why has unemployment risen in the new South Africa?" (PDF). Economics of Transition. 16 (4): 715–740. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.514.4342. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0351.2008.00340.x. hdl:2027.42/74834. S2CID 33437467.

Woolard has also written a book entitled:

Fighting Poverty: Labour Markets and Inequality in South Africa. This book was written in 2001 with the help of M. Leibbrant, H. Bhorat, M. Maziya, and S. van der Berg.

References

  1. ^ "Stellenbosch University gets first female dean of economics". Fin24. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Prof Ingrid Woolard". Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b "The Davis Tax Committee, Biographies". Retrieved 8 February 2018.
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