Imraan Valodia

Professor lmraan Valodia is Professor of Economics; Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality; and Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). 

His research interests include: inequality, climate justice, competition policy and industrial development, and employment in Global South countries. 

He played a leading role in establishing and leading Wits University's Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS), a multi-disciplinary, cross-country initiative to promote research and policy change to advance greater equality. He serves on several national committees in South Africa, including the Competition Tribunal; the Presidential Economic Advisory Council; the National Minimum Wage Commission; and the Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) Standing Committee on Science for the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality. 

Internationally, Prof. Valodia serves on the following boards: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD); UNAIDS Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics; Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO); and the Global Development Institute.

As a UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Professor Valodia is involved in the Patterns and drivers of global inequality project.