Murray Leibbrandt

Murray Leibbrandt is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and holds the SARChI Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research. He is the Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit and the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research. Professor Leibbrant’s research focuses on South African poverty, inequality and labour market dynamics using survey data and, in particular, panel data. He served as the Principal Investigator of South Africa’s national household panel survey, the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), from its inception in 2007 to 2017.