Ingrid Woolard

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, poverty and inequality, tax policy, and survey methodology.[2][3]

Ingrid Woolard
Born (1970-10-09) October 9, 1970
South Africa
InstitutionStellenbosch University
FieldPublic economics
Labour economics
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

Education

Woolard read for a B.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics and Economics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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