Mike de Klerk

Mike de Klerk is the Agricultural Policy Programme Manager at TIPS. He has a wealth of experience in the Agricultural Economics field, having lectured at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Cape Town and authored numerous articles on agrarian policy in South Africa, rural development, land reform and employment. In 1998, Mike joined the Land Bank as General Manager: Research and Development.

Then, in 2001, he established and managed for four years the very successful Integrated Rural and Regional Development (IRRD) research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), which focused on agrarian reform, rural infrastructure and service delivery, regional migration and investment and trade, and poverty and inequality. Most recently Mike was the Chief Operations Officer at the HSRC. Mike holds an MA in Economics (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town and also studied at the Institute for Development Studies, Sussex (1993-1996).