Faculty Member, Graduate School of Business
Professor
About
John Luiz is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, specialising in International Business; Business, Society, and Government; and the Economics of Emerging Markets. Previously he was a Professor at the Wits Business School and served in various capacities including as their Director of International Programmes and as Academic Director. He has also been Executive Dean in the Faculty of Management at the University of Johannesburg.
He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999, 2006 and 2011, and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University in 2006. Besides the Ph.D. in Economics, John has completed various other programmes including the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Development Economics at Cambridge University, the Wharton Global Faculty Development Programme, and Strategic Management at the Harvard Business School. He is a member of various professional bodies including the National Councils of the Economic Society of South Africa and the Economic History Society of South Africa. He is on the Editorial Board of the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, the South African Journal of Business Management, Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, and Economic History of Developing Regions, and a referee at several journals.
Besides winning various teaching awards, John has published in excess of 50 articles in leading journals including: International Business Review, Applied Economics, World Development, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Development Studies, The International Review of Law and Economics, , Journal of Applied Business Research, the Journal of International Development, International Business and Economics Research Journal and the Cambridge Journal of Economics. He is the co-author and/or editor of several books published by Macmillan, Pearson and Oxford University Press, and the co-author of an award-winning case study on sustainable development.
John works as a consultant and has undertaken research for the African Development Bank in Tunisia, Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Industrial Development Corporation, the Department of Trade and Industry, the United States Agency for International Development, the Johannesburg Development Agency, and the Centre for Development and Enterprise amongst others. He is active in management training and executive education at several leading multinational and South African corporations and public entities. He has lectured at various universities and programmes including the INSEAD My Globe Programme, the Grow Your Business programme and the Management Development Programme with Duke University. He has been a member of the Euromed Marseilles International Scientific Committee in France since 2004 and on the Academic Board of a leading economics think-tank – Economic Research Southern Africa since 2005 (chairing it from 2009).
Downloadable working papers:
Using Fractionalization Indexes: deriving methodological principles for growth studies from time series evidence http://www.econrsa.org/wp05.html
The Political Economy of Institutions, Stability and Investment: a simultaneous equation approach in an emerging economy – the case of South Africa http://www.econrsa.org/wp15.html
Fractionalization and Long-Run Economic Growth: Webs and Direction of Association between the Economic and the Social – South Africa as a Time Series Case Study http://www.econrsa.org/wp22.html
Does Human Generate Social and Institutional Capital? Exploring Evidence From Time Series Data in a Middle Income Country http://www.econrsa.org/wp29.html
Factors Influencing Foreign Direct Investment of South African Financial Services Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa http://www.econrsa.org/wp118.html
Evaluating the Performance of South African Economics Departments http://www.econrsa.org/wp150.html
Contact Information
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