GSDPP gains new lecturer under prestigous nGAP endowment

Musa Nxele has joined the GSDPP faculty as a Lecturer, after the School was awarded prestigious funding as part of the New Generation of Academics programme by the Department of Higher Education training.

Nxele, who is currently pursuing a PhD, holds an advanced Master of research degree in Globalization and International Economics from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Paris, as well as a Master of Commerce degree specialising in Economic Development from the University of Cape Town.

Nxele has wide-ranging interests across economics, business, governance, and international relations and joins the GSDPP team from a position lecturing development at Rhodes University. His current research is concerned with business-state relations in the mining industry in South Africa, and the impact of industrial mining on community-level poverty.

Nxele brings a wealth of practical as well as academic skills to the Dpeartment: he has worked as a researcher at Benchmarking & Manufacturing Analysts, focusing on key policy-related research mainly for national government. He also has experience as a researcher at the Southern Africa Labour and Research Unit (SALDRU) where he focused on the economics of migration, townships, and labour markets.