TIPS has the pleasure to invite you to the following Development Dialogue Seminar:

About Dr. Jha

Dr. Veena Jha is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Advanced studies, University of Warwick, UK, and a research fellow at the International Development Research Centre, Canada. She is also the executive director of Maguru Consultants Limited, London, UK.

Dr Jha holds a PH.D from the London University, U.K. She has worked extensively on trade and environment issues for over twenty years. She has worked with the United Nations in various capacities for over twenty years. She was the Coordinator of an important UNCTAD/DFID/Government of India initiative on 'Strategies and Preparedness for trade and Globalisation in India'.

Dr Jha has published twelve books on trade and development issues, articles in journals, and was a member of some consensus building initiatives on trade and environment issues in the last decade. She has been a member of several national and international Advisory Boards, notably the United Nations Secretary General's Task Force on Millennium Development goals. She has served as an expert on technical committees of the Government of India, industry associations, and non-governmental organisations on trade and development issues. She has advised several developing country governments on trade and development issues.

About the panel members:

Dr Christopher Loewald was appointed Deputy Director-General of the new Economic Policy Division of the National Treasury in March 2006.  He ran the 2006 Budget as Acting Deputy Director General for the Budget Office and the Chief Director for Fiscal Policy. From 1998 to 2005 he was responsible for macroeconomic policy and international economic policy, including the development of the inflation targeting framework. He co-chairs the Macroeconomic Standing Committee of the Reserve Bank and Treasury, and is a member of the South African Statistics Council. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.

Prof Ben Smit is currently Director of the BER and Professor of Economics at the University of Stellenbosch. He was appointed Director of the BER in 1998 but continues to lecture post-graduate students in the Department of Economics, which he joined in 1975. In 1985/86 Prof Smit spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Econometrics in the USA.

Professor Smit has been involved with numerous consulting positions including at the Department of Finance (1992 - to date), the Development Bank of Southern Africa (1994 - 1995) and the World Bank (1996 - 1998). He was involved with the macro-Economic Strategy for Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) in 1996.

Prof Smith is a Member of numerous editorial boards - including those of Studies in Economics and Econometrics and of Management Dynamics: Contemporary Research Journal of the Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists.

Prof Nicola Viegi is an Associate Professor in economics at the University of Cape Town. A graduate from the Scottish Doctoral Programme in Economics, he has been a lecturer in economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, invited lecturer at the University of Malta and at the Ecole Superior de Commerce in Toulouse.  He has been a regular Visiting Scholar at De Nederlandsche Bank.  Nicola's main areas of research are economic policy theory, macroeconomic modelling and regional macroeconomic integration. Current research includes inflation targeting under uncertainty, monetary policy and asset prices, and macroeconomic integration in Southern Africa.

About Dr. Neva Makgetla:

Dr Neva Makgetla is lead economist for research and information at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), which she joined in October 2008. She is seconded part-time as Sector Strategies Co-ordinator for the Presidency.

From 2006 to 2008, Dr Makgetla worked at the Presidency full time on sector strategies. From 2000 to 2006, she was policy co-ordinator for fiscal and monetary policy and, from 2005, head of the policy unit at the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). She represented labour as a member of the Securities Regulatory Panel, the Financial Sector Charter Council and the Employment Equity Commission.

Since 2003, Dr. Makgetla has had a fortnightly column in Business Day.

From mid-1995 to 2000, Dr. Makgetla worked for the South African government, including, between 1997 and 2000, as Deputy Director General for Remuneration and Conditions of Service and chief negotiator for the State as employer.

Before entering the public service, Dr. Makgetla worked for the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (NALEDI), which is associated with the COSATU. She lectured in Economics at universities in Africa and the U.S. from 1982 to 1994, including as senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from early 1991 to late 1994. In this period, she was a member of the Department of Economic Planning of the African National Congress of South Africa, and in 1993/4 was economics co-ordinator of the Reconstruction and Development Programme.

Dr. Makgetla completed her B.A. (Hons) at Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Economics in Berlin.

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Cheese and wine will be served after the talk.

The presentation slides for the Seminar are available below:

About Prof. Robert Z. Lawrence

Professor Robert Lawrence is Professor of International Trade and Investment at John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel of Asgi-SA.

Professor Robert Lawrence has published extensively.  The list of his research pieces can be found on http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/robert-lawrence

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The presentation slides for the Seminar are available below:

You are kindly invited to the following Development Dialogue Seminar:

Note that a light lunch will be provided afterwards.

About Prof. Carlo Pietrobelli :

Carlo Pietrobelli is Professor of International Economics at the University of Rome 3, Italy, where he directs the Research Centre on the Economics of Institutions (CREI, http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/CREI). He is also Delegate of the Rector for promoting University-Industry linkages and Head of the Industrial Liaison Office of the University of Rome 3 (since 2005). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. He has held positions in several Italian and foreign Universities and is a regular advisor to international organizations such as the European Commission, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, UNIDO, UNCTAD, ECLAC, OECD. His fields of expertise include industrial policy, industry, technology and trade in developing countries, Science and Technology Policies, Clusters, Networks and Value Chains, Design and Evaluation of Development Programs and Projects Upgrading to Compete. Clusters and Value Chains in Latin America (with R.Rabellotti), Cambridge Ma.: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007; Linking Local and Global Economies: The Ties that Bind (with Á. Sverrisson) London and New-York: ROUTLEDGE, 2004; Failing to Compete: Technology Development and Technology Systems in Africa (with Sanjaya Lall), Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward ELGAR, 2002; The Global Challenge to Industrial Districts: SMEs in Italy and Taiwan, (with P. Guerrieri and S. Iammarino), Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward ELGAR: 2001; Industry, Competitiveness and Technological Capabilities in Chile. A New Tiger from Latin America?, London and New York: MACMILLAN and ST.MARTIN'S, 1998.

Contact details

CREI, University of Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 161, 00154 Rome, Italy
Tel: � 06 57332476 Fax: 39 06 57332511
Email: c.pietrobelli@uniroma3.it
Website: www.pietrobelli.tk

Presenter:

John Ledger completed a B.Sc. Honours degree in Zoology at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1965 and thereafter worked at the South African Institute for Medical Research as a research scientist in the Department of Medical Entomology.

He spent 18 years at the SAIMR, completing his Doctorate at the School of Pathology and becoming Head of Department.

In 1985 John was appointed as Director of the Endangered Wildlife Trust. He grew this organization from 3 people to one of the leading conservation NGOs in Southern Africa.

He retired in 2002 to pursue his numerous other interests. He still edits the EWT's Vision magazine and its Vision annual book. He is Content Editor of African Wildlife, the journal of the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa.

John is Chairperson of the Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa (SESSA) and has business interests in solar water heating (see http://on-sunsolar.com/). He is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Johannesburg Zoo, a member of the Panel of Environmental Experts for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, a Consultant to the Lesotho Biodiversity Trust and a member of the Advisory Board of the Mazda Wildlife Fund since it was launched in 1990. He is a Visiting Associate Professor at Wits University and lectures on renewable energy and energy efficiency for the M.Sc course in Environmental Science.