CREFSA
Room Y212
St. Philips Building
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7280
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6954
Director:
Dr Jonathan Leape
E-mail: crefsa@lse.ac.uk
Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa
Last modified 20/07/05
The Director of the Centre is Jonathan Leape. Dr Leape is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the LSE and has been the Centre's Director since its inception in February 1990. He was editor of the Centre's Quarterly Review and has overall responsibility for the Centre's research programme, workshops and institution-building initiatives. His current research at the Centre focuses on the role of cross-border capital flows in South and Southern Africa and their implications for economic policy. Drawing on related research, Dr Leape has played an important role in widening the debate on an appropriate framework for the regulation of the South African financial system. He has also acted as an advisor on financial issues in South and Southern Africa to a variety of government and international institutions.
Lynne Thomas is the Centre's Research Officer and Resource Co-ordinator. She has also been with the Centre since its inception and was Associate Editor of the Centre's Quarterly Review. Her research interests include the characteristics of capital flows in Southern Africa, the determinants of growth in Southern African countries, and economic integration in the Southern African Development Community. She has considerable expertise in the availability and use of economic and financial data on Southern African countries, in particular with respect to the coverage and interpretation of international investment statistics.
Jens Reinke has been a Research Associate of the Centre since 1997. Dr Reinke is currently based at the International Monetary Fund, where he is an economist with the Statistics Department, working on balance of payments methodology. In recent years, he has served as IMF advisor on balance of payments issues to both the Bank of Botswana and the Central Bank of Liberia. Whilst Associate Director of the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, Dr Reinke directed research into financial regulation, banking sector development and macroeconomic issues. Dr Reinke was co-sponsored by CREFSA to carry out his PhD research on microfinance institutions in South Africa and his current research is centred around financial market development, financial regulation, and statistical and governance issues.
Janine Aron is a South African economist, based at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at the University of Oxford, who became a Research Associate of the Centre in October 1997. Dr Aron managed a two-year project on South African foreign exchange markets in conjunction with the African Economic Research Consortium and has also completed a study of consumption and savings behaviour in South Africa with John Muellbauer (Nuffield College, Oxford). Together with Prof. Muelbauer she is currently managing a DfID- funded project on 'New Monetary Policies for Sustainable Growth in South Africa".
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