Elvis Korku Avenyo is an Associate Professor of Development Economics at the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI Industrial Development) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa. Before joining the Chair, he was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) at UJ and a Research Officer at the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID), University of Oxford. He was also a Global Excellence and Stature (GES) Fellow and Open AIR’s Queen Elizabeth’s Scholar (QES) at the SARChI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Elvis obtained his Ph.D. in Economics of Innovation, Policy Studies of Technical Change, and Governance in May 2018 from the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT)/Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He also holds a collaborative Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Economics from the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) and the African Economic Research Consortium’s Joint Facility for Electives: Collaborative Masters Programme (CMAP) in Economics.
His research broadly focuses on development economics, with interests in innovation, technologies, industrial development, labor markets, firm behavior, and a special emphasis on developing countries.
