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Ingrid Woolard
Ingrid Woolard is dean at Stellenbosch University's faculty of economic and management sciences and professor of economics at Stellenbosch University.[1] Starting in January 2025, she will be dean of the business school at the University of Sussex. She was a professor of economics at the University of Cape Town and a Research Associate of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU). Her research focuses primarily on Labour markets, social protection and assistance, poverty and inequality, tax policy, fiscal policy, unemployment, and survey methodology.[2][3] EducationWoolard read for a B.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics and Economics from the University of Natal (Durban), and B.A. (Hons) in Economics from UNISA, She then proceeded to the University of Cape Town where she obtained a Ph.D. in Economics. CareerIngrid was previously the Chair of the Employment Conditions Commission which makes sectoral recommendations in sectors in which collective bargaining is weak (e.g. domestic work, farm work, hospitality and retail).[3] She consults regularly for various South African government departments and international organizations such as the World Bank, the ILO and the OECD. Since 2007, Woolard has been one of the Principal Investigators in the long-running the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), South Africa's national household panel survey. Woolard has been a member of the Davis Tax Committee since 2013.[2] BibliographyJournal articlesWoolard has written dozens of peer-reviewed articles including:
Woolard has also written a book entitled: Fighting Poverty: Labour Markets and Inequality in South Africa. This book was written in 2001 with the help of M. Leibbrandt, H. Bhorat, M. Maziya, and S. van der Berg. References
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