Structural Transformation in South Africa

Antonio Andreoni is Associate Professor of Industrial Economics at University College London and Head of Research at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He is Visiting Associate Professor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, SARChI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg. Antonio has researched and published extensively on production, technological change, and innovation dynamics; structural change, global value chains and industrialdevelopment; financialisation and corruption; governance and political economy of industrial policy. Antonio is an Editor of The European Journal of Development Research. He consults to various international organisations such as UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNDP, ILO, World Bank and OECD.Pamela Mondliwa is a Senior Managing Consultant at Berkeley Research Group (BRG) and a Research Associate at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED), University of Johannesburg. She has worked across consulting, academia, and policy on issues related to competition, economic regulation, industrial development, and regional economic development. Pamela has provided research support to various government departments in South Africa as well as internationalorganisations. She advises competition authorities and private clients on competition and economic regulation cases. Prior to joining BRG, she was a Senior Researcher at CCRED and an Economist at the Competition Commission of South Africa.Simon Roberts is a Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg, where he founded the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED), and a visiting Professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He has worked extensively on issues of industrial development, trade, regional and global value chains, competition, and economic regulation in Southern and East Africa, advising governments, competition authorities and regulators. He was an EconomicsDirector at the UK Competition and Markets Authority (2019 to 2020) and Chief Economist at the Competition Commission of South Africa from 2006 to 2012.Fiona Tregenna holds the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Industrial Development and is a Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Fiona is a part-time Member of the Competition Tribunal where she adjudicates competition (anti-trust) cases, and serves on a number of boards, advisory panels and councils, including the Presidential Economic Advisory Council. She consults to various research institutesand international organisations such as UNIDO, UNCTAD and the ILO. Her primary research interest is in issues of structural change, deindustrialization, and industrial development.