CURRICULUM VITAE MURRAY V. LEIBBRANDT ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Notre Dame Ph.D Dec 1993 Notre Dame MA 1986 Rhodes University B.Soc.Sc. (Hons: Economics) I 1983 Rhodes University B.Soc.Sc. I in three majors 1982 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Academic Appointments Yale University Visiting Professor 2012, 2018-2019 University of Cape Town Pro Vice-Chancellor, Poverty and Inequality 2013 - 2018 University of Cape Town NRF/DST Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research 2008- University of Michigan Visiting Professor 2003, 2019 Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Director 2001 - University of Cape Town Senior Lecturer/Assoc Prof/Professor 1994/1998/2000- University of Cape Town Director, School of Economics 1999-2002 Cornell University Visiting Fellow 1998 Rhodes University Senior Lecturer 1993-1994 University of Notre Dame Teaching Assistant 1990-1991 Rhodes University Lecturer 1986-1993 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Expert Group on a Basic Income Grant 2021 DHET Ministerial Task Team to Review Student Funding 2021 Co-Chair, the T20 Taskforce on Social Cohesion for the G20 2021 Co-Chair, IUSSP Scientific Panel On Population, Poverty and Inequality 2018 - Executive Committee of the International Economic Association 2017 - World Fellow, World Wealth and Income Database (WID) 2017 - Editorial Board, Development Southern Africa 2017 - Non-resident Senior Research Fellow, WIDER 2016 - Executive Committee, Human Development Capabilities Association 2017-2018 Member, Deputy President’s Advisory Panel on the National Minimum Wage 2016-2017 Chair of the Academy of Science of South Africa’s Standing Committee on Science for the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality 2014 - 2018 Executive Committee, Mandela Initiative: Dialogue and action to overcome poverty and inequality 2013 - 2018 IZA Research Fellow 2012 - Associate Editor, IZA Journal of Labor and Development 2012 – Board Member, National Research Foundation 2011 - 2017 National Research Foundation Ratings Panel For Economics, Management, Administration and Accounting 2011 - 2013 1 Senior editor, the PopPov Research Network’s Population and Economic Development Working Paper Series. Centre for Global Development. 2010 - Steering Committee, African Economic Research Consortium’s Research Programme on Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa 2008-2012 President South African Economic Society 2007-2010 International Scientific Committee, Council for Research on Poverty (CROP) 2007 - 2008 Steering Committee, Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) 2006 - 2010 President, African Econometric Society 2006-2007 Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Panel on ‘Population Growth and Human Welfare in Africa’ 2007 - 2009 Member, International Panel Evaluating World Bank Research, 1998- 2005. (One of team reviewing poverty and inequality research) 2005/2006 Member, IUSSP, International Panel on ‘Population and Poverty’ 2003-2005 Convenor of the National Research Foundation Ratings Panel For Economics, Agricultural Economics and Development Studies 2002, 2006 Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit. 2002- Member of the Academic Board for the African Economics Research Consortium PhD Programme 2002-2003 Council Member of the Economic Society of South Africa 2000 - 2011 Member of the Editorial Board of the South African Journal of Economics 2000 - 2010 African Econometric Society, Council Member 2000 - Member, Panel to Consider the Current Status of the Economic Society of Southern Africa 1999-2000 Member, SPA Working Group on Poverty and Social Policy, Assisting the World Bank in their planning for the 1999 Status Report on Poverty in Africa. 1998 Member, Three-person Technical Team advising the Reparations Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1997 Editorial Panel, Development Southern Africa 1995-2000 Co-ordinator, South African Network for Economic Research (SANER) 1995-98 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Research Leadership Director, ARUA’s African Centre for Inequality Research 2018 - Principal Investigator, National Income Dynamics Study funded by the Office of the President and now the DPME 2006 - 2019 Project Leader, Research on Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth, a national project supported by the National Treasury. 2012-2018 Guest Editor, Special Edition of Development Southern Africa 2014 2 Principal Investigator, South Africa's Unfolding Human and Social Dynamics: Evidence from Longitudinal Data, as awarded by the National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Technology’s grants for: Human and Social Dynamics in Development Grand Challenges. 2012-2014 Principal Investigator, Social Protection and Labour Market Outcomes of the Youth in South Africa, for the IDRC’s Supporting Inclusive Growth Program. 2011-2013 Guest Editor, Special Edition of Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2010 Principal Investigator, Fertility, Intergenerational Transfers, and Economic Development in South Africa, as one of the Hewlett/PRB Global Teams of Research Excellence in Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development. 2008/2011 UCT Principal Investigator, the Cape Area Panel Study. 2006/2008 Guest Editor, Special Edition of Economic Modelling 2005 Invited lecture at the 13th World Congress of the International Economics Association, Lisbon, 9th-13th September. 2002 UCT principal researcher, multi-year NICHD-funded survey research projects with Professor David Lam of the University of Michigan. 2001-2009 Member, Steering Committee of Mellon Foundation grant to stimulate research into poverty and inequality in South Africa. 2001-2008 Guest Editor, Special Edition, Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2000 Director, the Saldru Khayelitsha/Mitchell’s Plain 2000 Survey. 1999-2000 Project Leader, South African Country Study, under African Economic Research Consortium’s Research Programme on Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa. 1998-2000 Books, Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Analysis of the Distributional Effects of COVID-19 and State-Led Remedial Measures in South Africa”. (Forthcoming) The International Journal of Microsimulation. (Co-author with Gemma Wright, Jukka Pirttilä, Michael Noble, Wynnona Steyn, Brenton Van Vrede Gabriel Espi-Sanchis, David McLennan and Helen Barnes) “Piketty comes to South Africa”. British Journal of Sociology. 2021; 72: 106 – 124. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12808 (Free Access) (Co-author with Fabio Díaz Pabón, Vimal Ranchhod and Mike Savage) Inequality in the Developing World. (2021) WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Edited with Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp) “Setting the Scene”. (2021). Chapter 1. In C. Gradın, M. Leibbrandt, & F. Tarp (Eds.), Inequality in the Developing World (1st ed., pp. 1–13). Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Co-author with Carlos Gradin, & Finn Tarp) 3 “South Africa: The top end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution, and the persistence of very high inequality”. (2021) Chapter 9. In C. Gradın, M. Leibbrandt, & F. Tarp (Eds.), Inequality in the Developing World (pp. 205–229). Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Co-author with Vimal Ranchhod and Pippa Green) “Synthesis and policy implications”. (2021). Chapter 13. In C. Gradin, M. Leibbrandt, & F. Tarp (Eds.), Inequality in the Developing World (1st ed., pp. 321–337). Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Co-author with Gradin, C., Leibbrandt, M., & Tarp, F.) “Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers.” (2021) World Development, 139, 105271. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105271 (Co-author with Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia, Vimal Ranchhod) "Why is youth unemployment so intractable in South Africa? A synthesis of evidence at the micro-level", (2020) Journal of Applied Youth Studies. 3, 115–131 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00012-6 (Co-Author with Lauren Graham, Ariane Delannoy, Leila Patel) “Identity, Inequality and Social Contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa”. In, Hino, H., Langer, A., Lonsdale, J. and Stewart, F. (2019). From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures? Reflections on Africa. Cambridge University Press. (Co-author with Hiroyuki Hino, Murray Leibbrandt, Ratjomose Machema, Muna Shifa and Crain Soudien) “Assessing the usability of the Western Cape Graduate Destination Survey for the analysis of labour market outcomes”. (2018). Chapter 8 in Michael Rogan (Ed.) Post-School Education and the Labour Market in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. (Co-author with Nicola Branson) “Tackling persistent poverty and inequality: A dynamic perspective”. (2018). Ch9 in Michael Nassen Smith (Ed.) Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis. Johannesburg: Jacana. (Co-author with Simone Schotte and Rocco Zizzamia) “Measuring and profiling financial literacy in South Africa”. (2018). South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences. 21(1), 1-17, a1645. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v21i1.1645 Earlier Version Published as SALDRU Working Paper Number 171. Cape Town: SALDRU, 2016. (Co-author with Elizabeth