In 2011, the University Social Responsiveness Committee established a Poverty and Inequality Planning Group (PIPG).
The PIPG comprised the following members:
Ariane De Lannoy
Chief Research Officer: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Britta Rennkamp
Senior Researcher: Energy, Environment and Climate Change Group; Senior Fellow: African Climate and Development Initiative
Caroline Skinner
Senior Researcher; Director: Urban Policies Programme, African Centre for Cities
Diane McIntyre
Emeritus Professor; formerly School of Public Health & Family Medicine
Edgar Pieterse
DST-NRF Research Chair 'Urban Policy'; Director: African Centre for Cities
Francis Wilson
Emeritus Professor: formerly Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Ingrid Woolard
Research associate: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Janice McMillan
Senior Lecturer: Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching
Judy Favish
Research associate; Southern Africa Labour Development Research Unit
Laura Poswell
Executive Director; J-PAL Africa; Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Lungisile Ntsebeza
AC Jordan Chair; Director: Centre for African Studies
Murray Leibbrandt
Director: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Sonwabo Ncgelwane
Research and Development Coordinator: Social Responsiveness