WELCOME

I am PhD student in the School of Economics, and a Research Affiliate at the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP), both at the University of Cape Town (UCT). I am also a Research Analyst at Development Gateway (DG). 

My PhD research, under the supervision of Professor Corne' van Walbeek, focuses on estimating the cigarette demand in four African economies and simulating the distributional effects of cigarette excise tax increases in high-smoking and unequal context(s). My research interests are in Development Economics (unhelathy products, excise taxes, health, and  education) and Applied Microeconometrics. Before PhD studies, I spent a short stint as a Lecturer at two universities in Lesotho. 

I hold a Master's degree in Economics from UCT (2021), where I was a  Canon Collins Scholar, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Statistics from the National University of Lesotho (NUL) (2019), where I received the top student award from the Central Bank of Lesotho. I completed high school at Sacred Heart High School (SHHS) (2014), where I was a top achiever in the national top 10 rankings.

You can download my latest CV here.