Dr Nimrod Zalk
Dr Nimrod Zalk is Chief Research Officer: Climate and Development at the University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance.
Dr Zalk is a development economist focused on green industrialisation and development finance in Africa. He has over 20 years’ experience in trade and industrial development research; policy formulation and implementation; and development finance. Until July 2023 he served as Deputy Director-General: Sectors in the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) and as non-executive Director of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of South Africa.
He holds an MSc and a PhD in Economics from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He has authored a number of policy documents (notably South Africa’s National Industrial Policy Framework); academic publications; and opinion pieces, including on the role of development banks in African green industrialisation. He is co-founder of the annual African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE).
Journal Articles
- N. Zalk. 2020. 'Socio-economic transformation needs broad-based participation in the economy to benefit all.' Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), 76: 39-41
- N. Zalk. 2019. 'Hiding in plain sight: high-value agriculture’s large-scale potential to grow jobs and exports.'
- N. Zalk. 2016. 'The imperative for productive and jobs-rich investment.' South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy
Research Paper
- N. Zalk. 2017. The things we lost in the fire: the political economy of post-apartheid restructuring of the South African steel and engineering sectors. SOAS University of London
Op-Ed
- How Africa Should Approach Trade and Industrialization, Project Syndicate (April 2021)