Fiona Tregenna
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fiona Tregenna | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Professor at the University of Johannesburg and Director at UNU-MERIT |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Sub-discipline | Industrial organisation, industrial development |
| Main interests | Deindustrialisation, structural change, industrial policy, heterodox and Marxian economics |
Fiona Tregenna is a South African economist who is professor of economics at the University of Johannesburg and Director at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands. She holds the South African Research Chair in industrial development. She has been a member of the South African Competition Tribunal since 2013 and served on President Cyril Ramaphosa's Presidential Economic Advisory Council.
Tregenna's primary research interest is industrial development, especially structural change and deindustrialisation. She has also published on other topics in industrial organisation and competition economics, as well as on inequality and unemployment.
Tregenna completed undergraduate degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand and University of Natal. She has a master's in economics from the University of Massachusetts and a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge.[1]
In January 2016, she took office as South African Research Chair (SARChl) in industrial development. The SARChl has its own research programme at the University of Johannesburg, funded by the Department of Science and Technology and administered by the National Research Foundation, and is renewable until 2031.[2] Tregenna is also a professor economics at the University of Johannesburg and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.[3] In January 2026, she took office as Director of UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands[4]
