Shakespear Mudombi

Shakespear Mudombi currently works as an economist at the Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) based in Pretoria, South Africa. He is in the Sustainable Growth pillar which focuses on climate change, the green economy and energy issues. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on an ESPA funded research project assessing biofuel impacts on ecosystem services, human well-being and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also worked as an NRF SARCHi research fellow at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) at Tshwane University of Technology. He holds a PhD in Environmental Management from the University of South Africa, a Collaborative MSc in Agricultural & Applied Economics (CMAAE) from the University of Zimbabwe (with electives done at University of Pretoria) and BSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of Zimbabwe. Shakespear also attended the Bergen Summer Research School held at the University of Bergen in Norway; the Southern Africa Young Scientists Summer Program (SA-YSSP) hosted by the University of Free State; and the GLOBELICS PhD Academy on Innovation and Economic Development hosted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Shakespear was a co-investigating researcher in the START grants for Global Environmental Change Research in Africa. He was also awarded the Climate Change Innovation Research grant by the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS). He also worked as a research consultant on the Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program on Conservation Agriculture and Climate Change. He has an active interest in cross-cutting issues including green economy, sustainable growth, agricultural and rural development, climate change, behavioural economics, and economics of innovation.