Zeph Nhleko

Chief Economist and GE: Strategy & Sustainability, DBSA South Africa

Currently, the DBSA Chief Economist, an adjunct professor at the University of South Africa and a member of the South African Presidential Economic Advisory Council. Before this he served as a Deputy Director-General at the national Economic Development Department. This followed a role as a Deputy Director-General at a provincial (sub-national) Department of Economic Development. He earlier spent more than 17 years as a senior economist at the South African Reserve Bank (central bank). He holds, among others, an MCom, MBA and Phd degrees.