ABOUT
Vusi Gumede Research & Publications is an intellectual platform to engage critical issues.
VISION
To Think Through Socio-Economic
and Political Issues in Africa and the World at Large.
Prof Vusi Gumede holds a PhD in Economics (2003), MCom in Economics (1999) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Policy (2009), among his higher qualifications. For eleven years, he held various senior government positions before joining academia.
Vusi Gumede is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the Durban University of Technology. He previously was a Professor and the Dean for the Faculty of Economics, Development & Business Sciences at the University of Mpumalanga. Prior to that he was a Professor at the University of South Africa and Director at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Before that he was an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He has also lectured public policy at the School of Governance at the University of Witwatersrand, facilitated courses in economics and in public policy for the School of Government in South Africa, facilitated writing retreats for the University of Mpumalanga and lectured Economics at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business where he held an Honorary Professorship.
He has been a fellow for many institutions, including as a Distinguished Africanist Scholar at Cornell University and a World Fellow at Yale University in the United States of America, he was a fellow at the Oxford University’s Center for the Study of African Economies, visiting scholar at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, UNDP’s International Policy Center in Brasilia and at the Center for the Advanced Study of African Society in Cape Town. He occupied various positions in the South African government before joining the academic sector. He is widely published, including 20 books and over 50 journal articles and book chapters as well as guest edited 4 special issues of journals and he has presented 72 papers in conferences. He has contributed in 4 Handbooks and 5 textbooks as well as written numerous opinion articles and blogs. His qualifications are in economics, public policy and leadership, including a PhD in Economics. Before joining government he worked as a researcher for various institutions and had lectured Economics at the erstwhile University of Durban-Westville where he did his Masters of Commerce in Economics.
Among other things, he was Vice-President & later President of the National Council of the South African Association of Political Studies, Deputy Chairman & later Chairman of Southern Africa Trust and Editor-in-Chief for Africa Insight and Africanus: Journal of Development Studies. He is a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, member of the Editorial Board of the HSRC Press, member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), Chairperson of the ASSAf Standing Committee on the Science for Reduction of Poverty & Inequality and an Associate Editor for South African Journal of Science. He holds a C2 rating from the National Research Foundation. His research deals with the political economy of development in South Africa and the broader African continent. Since joining the academic sector in 2010, he has supervised to completion 10 Masters and 19 Doctoral students as well as mentored 11 Postdoctoral Fellows. He has been an external examiner for various institutions and he has undertaken numerous research projects in and outside South Africa.
