Amiena Bayat

Amiena Bayat has a PhD in Economics from UWC and a MA in Development Economics from Williams College (USA) which she obtained as a Mandela Economics Scholar. She is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social Development, and is the current acting director of the Institute. Amiena has more than 20 years of experience in the area of social and economic development. Her work is extensive, ranging from sustainable livelihoods, poverty & inequality, industrial development and education policy. She has undertaken assignments for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the European Union (EU) and the South African Presidency, to name but a few. She is currently working on the Global Eco-industrial Park Programme for UNIDO and is the international expert on access to finance for eco-industrial parks. To date Amiena has graduated more than 20 Masters and PhD students.

Cape Town, South Africa

Current professional activity

  • Acting Director – ISD, UWC

Slogan about myself

Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkein

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Languages Rating 1-10

Afrikaans
speaking: 8
writing: 7
English
speaking: mother tongue (10)
writing: 10

Publications and Projects

Publications

Impact of COVID-19 on South Africa’s early childhood education and the sustainable development goals

In South Africa, the government’s ECD (early childhood development) norms and standards policy sets the minimum standards for an acceptable ECD center and the country is considered to have made tremendous progress in providing ECD services since the apartheid era....