Industry Development Planner | IDC

Pamela is an Industry Development Planner at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), where she formulates and supports the implementation of IDC industry development strategies. Prior to joining the IDC, she was the Special Advisor on Economic Policy in the Ministry of Finance in South Africa. Pamela’s combined experience in industrial development and economic regulation has afforded her a unique lens on firm level decision making and its interaction with policy interventions from the perspective of firms, regulators and policy makers. She has extensive experience in economic regulation including competition, energy and telecommunications economic regulation in several countries including South Africa. This experience was gained in various roles including as an Economist at the Competition Commission of South Africa; an Economist at Acacia Economics, a boutique competition and economic regulation consultancy; and as a Senior Managing Consultant at Berkeley Research Group in the disputes and investigations practice.  In these roles, she conducted economic analyses for investigations and expert evidence on complex enforcement cases, cartels, mergers and acquisitions, and estimated damages.

Pamela has also previously been a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development at the University of Johannesburg, where she is now a research associate. Her research focuses on issues related to competition policy, economic regulation, structural transformation, global value chains, political economy of industrial development, inclusive growth and regional economic development. She has published in various journals, contributed to books as well as co-edited Structural Transformation in South Africa: The Challenges of Inclusive Industrial Development in a Middle-Income Country (OUP, 2021). She has provided research support and advice to various government departments in South Africa, and international organisations. Pamela holds and MCom in Economics from the University of Johannesburg.