Theresa Moyo

Theresa Moyo is Deputy, Chairperson of the Africa Insight (Pretoria, South Africa) and Associate Professor at the University of Limpopo in South Africa. 

She is also a Professor in Master of Development in Planning and Management Programme at the Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership (TGSL). Appointed in 2004, she is one of the school’s longest serving members. Professor Moyo holds 4 degrees namely: a Bsc Hons (Economics) and M Phil (Economics) degrees from the University of Zimbabwe; MA (Economics) and PhD (Economics) degrees from University of Dalhousie in Canada and has over 20 years of lecturing experience at tertiary level.

Her research interests are in the development field, with a focus on issues of African Development such as public policy and development, structural transformation, trade and industrialization, local economic development, climate change and development and gender dimensions of development. She has published in SAPSE-accredited and other refereed journals, and these include Africa Insight, Development Southern Africa and the Journal of Public Administration and Management (JOPA).

As part of her academic citizenship, she is a member of the Advisory Academic Board for the Collaborative PhD Programme in Economics at the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi, Kenya” among other significant positions she holds.