Prof Logan Rangasamy, Academic Director at Wits Business School, has worked on economic policy issues and developments for over 30 years. During this period, his involvement has been in the capacity of economic advisor at the European Union and senior positions at international institutions and at the South African Reserve bank. His work has covered policy issues related to national (South Africa), regional (Common monetary area, Southern African Development Community, Africa) and multilateral (G20, IMF, OECD etc) interests. Logan has participated in discussions at both technical and high-level meetings with senior policymakers (ministers, central bank governors, presidencies of governments, international investors, rating agencies etc).
He has led country and technical teams at the G20, IMF, AU, SADC, and CMA forums. He has held oversight responsibility for South Africa’s participation at the working groups at the BRICS, G20, IMF, OECD and BRICS. He led South Africa’s technical team in the BRICS Contingency Reserve Arrangement discussions which resulted in the establishment of a US$100billion facility for BRICS countries. He has chaired the SARB’s technical team in interactions with the IMF, G20 and other continental bodies in Africa. He has articulated African interests at international fora (G20, BRICS and OECD) and has been involved in the Africa Peer Review Mechanism evaluating macroeconomic performance of African countries.
Rangasamy has published many articles in peer reviewed journals on policy issues. He assumed the role of Academic Director at Wits Business School on 1 January 2021 where his focus is on establishing “WBS as the leading African Business School firmly embedded among the best business schools internationally”.