Shirley Robinson

Position: 
Member
E-mail: 
Shirley [at] econrise [dot] co [dot] za

The Director of Economic Rise Consulting, Shirley Robinson is an economist advising on public policy concerns, primarily targeted towards urban and regional economic development.

She holds a master's degree in Business Science (Economics) from the University of Cape Town and has worked extensively in the public sector with the National Treasury's budget team, the Western Cape Provincial Treasury and Premier's Office, as well as in the non-governmental sector, with the Institute for Democracy in South Africa's Budget Information Service.

She is currently registering at the University of Cape Town for her PhD in Economics, focused on A multi-nodal competitiveness analysis of the Cape Town city-region.