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Professor Imraan Valodia is Professor of Economics, Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality, and Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a BCom, BComHons, MSc in International Trade and Finance, and DEcon. His research interests include inequality, climate justice, competition policy, industrial development, and employment in developing countries. Professor Valodia played a leading role in establishing the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, a multi-disciplinary initiative to promote research and policy change for greater equality. He has led large national and international studies, including an international study of the informal economy across 10 cities, a three-year project on the gender impacts of taxation in eight countries, and work through the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies on employment, inequality, wealth inequality in the global South, care, climate change, and green industrialisation in Africa. He has published extensively in leading academic journals and the popular press and co-edited the Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy.