Prof Ingrid Woolard

Ingrid Woolard is Professor of Economics and Executive Dean of the University of Sussex Business School.  She is also Honorary Professor of Economics at Groningen University and the University of Cape Town; a Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki and a Research Associate of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University. 

In 2022 Woolard became a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Her areas of research specialization include the measurement of poverty and inequality, unemployment, social protection and fiscal policy. She served on the Employment Conditions Commission from 2008-2014, with the last three years in the role of Chair. She served as the Chair of the ECC for the last three years of this period. and served on the Davis Tax Committee from 2013-2018.