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GEM Alumni

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Elina Amadhila
Home Country: Namibia
Department: University of Stellenbosch Business School​
Graduation date: December 2016
Online: Researchgate

​Qiaowen Zhang
Home Country: China
Department: Business Management
Graduation date: December 2016
Online: Researchgate

Anderson Gondwe
Home Country: Malawi
Department: Economics
Graduation date: December 2016
Online: LinkedIn

Christie Swanepoel
Home Country: South Africa
Department: Economics
Graduation date: March 2017

Anna Kangombe
Home Country: South Africa
Department: School of Public Leadership
Graduation date: March 2017

Anna Orthofer
Home Country: Austria
Department: Economics
Graduation date: December 2017
Online: LinkedIn

Chris Garbers
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: Essays on the Credit Cycle
Department: Economics
Graduation date: December 2017
Online: LinkedIn​

Justin Van Dijk
Home Country: Netherlands
Department: Logistics and Transport Economics
Graduation date: December 2017

Mike Nyawo
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Project Title: Micro-price adjustment to the multicurrency system in Zimbabwe.
Department: Economics
Graduation date: March 2018
Online: LinkedIn​

Abel Gwaindepi
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Project Title: State building in the colonial era: An investigation of the revenue and expenditure patterns of the Cape Colony, 1820-1910.
Department: Economics
Graduation date: March 2018
Online: LinkedIn

Laurie Binge 
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: Real Alternative Assets: The South African Real Estate and Art Markets.
Department: Economics
Graduation date: March 2018
Online: LinkedIn

Cuthbert Muza
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Project Title: An assessment of the impact of Environmental Management Accounting in Zimbabwe’s extractive industries.
Department: School for Public Leadership
Graduation date: March 2018
Online: LinkedIn

Emmanuel Fungo
Home Country: Tanzania
Project Title: Improving Road Infrastructure for Efficient Utilisation of Local Agricultural Resources: Case Study of Morogoro, Tanzania
Department: Logistics and Transport Economics
Graduation date: March 2018
Online: LinkedIn

Chengetai Dare
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Project Title: Tax revenue mobilisation:  Improving personal income tax compliance in South Africa
Department: Economics
Graduation date: December 2018
Online: LinkedIn

Nicola Vermooten
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: Variance in employee engagement among public school teachers in South Africa: an exploratory study
Department: Industrial Psychology
Graduation date: December 2018
Online: LinkedIn

Benjamin Batinge
Home Country: Ghana
Project Title: Expediting transitions in unmet electricity markets: The case of leapfrogging renewable energy in Africa
Department: School of Public Leadership
Graduation date: December 2018
Online: LinkedIn

Jude Mugarura
Home Country: Uganda
Project Title: Public Private Partnerships in Road infrastructure Development in Uganda
Department: School of Public Leaderhsip
Graduation date: April 2019

Nwabisa Makaluza
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: An empirical investigation into the gendered informality and job search in the South African labour market​
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2019
Online: LinkedIn​

Ben Higgins
Home Country: UK
Project Title: Towards Sustainable Urban Futures: The Potential of Foresight in Governance to Improve Sustainable Urban Development Outcomes in South Africa.
Department: School for Public Leadership
Graduation date: December 2019


Martina Mchenga
Home Country: Malawi
Project Title: Vulnerable Households and Health: Evidence from surverys in Malawi and South Africa 
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2019
Online: LinkedIn​

Thabang Molise
Home Country: Lesotho
Project Title: Essays on macroprudential policies and financial stability in Emerging Market Economies
Department: Economics
Graduation date: December 2019
Online: LinkedIn​

Tawanda Chingoza
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Project Title: Applying machine learning on remotely sensed and GIS data to analyse socio-economic change in SSA
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2020
Online: Twitter​

Paul Wabiga
Home Country: Uganda
Project Title: Foreign Direct investment Exportation and employment generation - Firm level analysis
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2020
Online: LinkedIn​

Heinrich Nel
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: QUANTIFYING LIFECYCLE MOBILITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE CAPE PANEL
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2020
Online: LinkedIn​

Helvi Petrus
Home Country: Namibia
Project Title: FUNDING FOR ROADS IN NAMIBIA: OPTIMAL USER CHARGES AND COST RECOVERY
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2020
Online: LinkedIn​

Neema Towo
Home Country: Malawi
Project Title: The impact of training on productivity: The macro-micro analysis
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2020
Online: LinkedIn​

Leon Matsuro
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Project Title: Firm and worker dynamics in an uncertain economic environment
Department: Economics
Graduation date: April 2020
Online: LinkedIn​
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Hlokoma Mangqalaza
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: The social innovation systems approach for sustainable development in an African urban informal settlement
Department: SPL
Graduation date: December 2020​
Online: LinkedIn​

Rossouw van Jaarsveld
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: ​​Pending
Department: Economics​
Graduation date: December 2020​
Online: LinkedIn​

Noe Careme Fouotsa Manfouo
Home Country: Cameroon
Project Title: Application of long short-term memory artificial neural networks to forecast water supply and demand in the Lake Chad Basin 
Department: Logistics (Operations Research)
Graduation date: December 2020​
Online: LinkedIn​

Jacques Pienaar
Home Country: RSA​
Project Title: The development and psychometric evaluation of a graduate leader competency questionnaire 
Department: Industrial Psychology
Graduation date: December 2020
Online: LinkedIn​

Jeannie de Villiers-Strijdom
Home Country: RSA
Project Title: Annuity decision-making 
Department: Business Management 
Graduation date: April 2021
Online: LinkedIn​

Flora Hofmann
Home Country: Germany
Project Title: Order picking optimisation on a unidirectional cyclical picking line 
Department: Logistics (Operations Research) 
Graduation date: April 2021

Farai Nyika
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Project Title: The private credit market of the Cape Colony, 1673-1834 : wealth, property rights, and social networks 
Department: Economics 
Graduation date: April 2021


Joel Gondwe
Home Country: Malawi
Project Title: Pending
Department: Economics 
Graduation date: April 2021
Online: LinkedIn​