Professor Jannie Rossouw was appointed as Head of the School of Economic and Business Sciences (SEBS) in February 2014 at Wits University. Previously he worked at the SA Reserve Bank and the University of South Africa.
Rossouw was co-editor of a special supplement of the journal Economic History of Developing Regions (2011). He is Vice-President of the Economic Society of South Africa and serves on the Finance Committee of the South African Academy for Arts and Culture. He chairs the Audit Committee of the Afrikaans Language Museum and Monument in Paarl.
Rossouw obtained an MBA and MCom in Economics from the University of Pretoria and holds a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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