Jannie Rossouw is professor at Wits Business School. He previously served as interim Head of WBS. He completed the M.Com (Economics) and MBA degrees at the University of Pretoria and a PhD degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
He has published widely and often addresses conferences and other interest groups. His publications include a book on the SA Reserve Bank, a number of book chapters and more than 30 papers in accredited academic journals.
His areas of research are inflation perceptions and inflation credibility, ownership structures of central banks with private shareholders and fiscal sustainability in South Africa. In 2014 he published a research paper on South Africa’s looming fiscal cliff and this matter has since attracted considerable attention in South Africa.
Jannie established himself as a political economist and regularly comments in the media on local and international economic and political developments.
He is a member of the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (L.Akad.SA) and serves on its Audit and Risk Management Committee. He also chairs the Audit Committee of the Afrikaans Language Museum and Monument in Paarl. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the UNIsarf Pension Fund as an alternate member.
The SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns awarded in 2019 the Stals prize for economics to Jannie.