Gregory Mankiw
Harvard University
N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. As a student, he studied economics at Princeton University and MIT. As a teacher, he has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and principles of economics. Professor Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behaviour, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. His published articles have appeared in academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in more widely accessible forums, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. In addition to his teaching, research, and writing, Professor Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office, and a member of the ETS test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Mark P. Taylor
Dean of Olin Business School, Washington University, St. Louis
Mark P. Taylor is Dean of the John M Olin Business School at Washington University, US and was previously Dean of Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK. He obtained his first degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He then worked as a foreign exchange dealer in London for two years while simultaneously studying part-time for a master’s degree in economics at London University, from where he also holds a doctorate in economics. Professor Taylor has taught economics at various universities (including Warwick, Oxford, Marseille and New York), at various levels (from principles courses to advanced graduate and MBA courses) and in various fields (including macroeconomics, microeconomics and econometrics). He also worked for several years as a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and before that at the Bank of England. His work has been extensively published in scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Political Economy and the Economic Journal, and he is today one of the most highly cited economists in the world in economic research. In addition, Professor Taylor has acted as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank of England, the European Commission and to senior members of the UK government. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a member of council of the Royal Economic Society, and a fellow of both the Royal Statistical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.
Celeste Campher
Celeste Campher is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of the Free State. She currently lectures both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at an undergraduate level and Research Methodology at post-graduate level. She has nearly 15 years lecturing experience, and also worked as a public servant in the Office of the Premier, and the Provincial Treasury in the Free State province. She is currently studying for her PhD, which is focused on the use of incentivised social discounting tasks to determine the association between social distance and time, risk and other preferences.
R. Ncwadi
RONNEY NCWADI is the first black academic to be appointed Head of Economics at Nelson Mandela University. Prior to that, he was a director in the Macroeconomic Analysis Unit of the Eastern Cape Provincial Treasury and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Management and Commerce at Fort Hare University.
