Doctor Lumkile Mondi

Courses and Disciplines taught at WBS: 

Business, Society and Collective Action.

Other Teaching Experience: 

Economics 1 Coordinator; Development Economics III; Development Economics IV. Post-graduate Supervision.

Research Interests: 

Macroeconomics; political economy; climate change; energy justice and just transition; technology and innovation in the energy sector (battery storage, hydrogen and mining of energy metals).

Industry and Professional Experience: 

Lumkile Mondi has more than 30 years of experience as a Chief Economist, scholar and senior business executive. He is a director of Sedibelo Platinum Mines, a lead independent director of Gemfields Group Limited, the chairman of Thelo Rolling Stock Leasing and VM Autos, IDC linked entities and South African Housing Development Fund a PIC linked entity. 

Recent Publications and Scholarly Contributions: 

Mondi, L. (2020). South Africa and African continental economic integration in the 2020s. In Sidiropoulos, E. & Bradlow, D. (Eds). South African Foreign Policy in the 2020s. Retrieved from https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/component/edocman/edited-collections/values-interests-and-power-south-african-foreign-policy-in-uncertain-times?Itemid=147

Community Engagement: 

Lumkile is a trustee of the FinMark Trust and the Centre of Excellence in Financial Services.

International Experience: 

Lumkile is a Senior Advisor to the Pallinghurst Partnership and a member of the Group’s Senior Advisory Panel.

Recent Media: https://muckrack.com/lumkile-mondi/articles