Conferences
2023
Presenter, Inaugural Conference of the International Network on African Energy Transition (16-17 November 2023), LUISS University - Rome, Italy.
Presenter, 19th Development Dialogue, International Institute of Social Studies (13-14 November 2023), The Hague, The Netherlands.
Presenter, Conference of the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains on "Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries" (26-27 September 2023), Kiel, Germany.
Contributor, Africa Policy Research Private Institute (APRI) Project on "Africa’s Development Agenda for its Critical Raw Materials" Working Session (13-14 September 2023), Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Presenter, ERSA Workshop on "Financial Technology and Development" (8-9 September 2023), Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Presenter, TIPS Forum 2023 on “Industrial Policy in an era of global structural change: Implications for Southern Africa", (1-2 August 2023), Midrand, South Africa.
Mini-Conference Organiser and Presenter, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 2023 Conference on "Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order" (20-22 July 2023), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2022
Presenter and Overall Best Conference Paper Award, African Economic Conference on 'Supporting climate-smart development in Africa' (9-11 December 2022), Balaclava, Mauritius.
Presenter, International Research Conference on “Africa’s regional and global integration – Lessons from the past and implications for the future (17-18 November 2022), Bonn, Germany.
Presenter, ERSA Workshop on the “Competition Policy and Regulation in Digital Markets” (30 September 2022), Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Presenter, PEGNet Conference 2022 (1-2 September 2022), Kampala, Uganda.
Presenter, Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) Annual Forum on 'Towards a Just Transition: The Role of Industrial Policy' (1-2 August 2022), Pretoria, South Africa.
Presenter, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE 2022) annual conference (9-11 July 2022) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Co-Presenter (with Fiona Tregenna), ‘Learning to export’ and ‘learning by exporting’: The relationship between innovation and exports (June 13, 2022), UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Research Seminar Series 2021-2022.
Presenter, Catalysing Green Industrialisation in Africa workshop (June 8-10, 2022), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Organized by Gary Gereffi, Duke University and Lindsay Whitfield, Copenhagen Business School.
2021
Presenter, The 17th Globelics Conference (November 3-5, 2021), Heredia – Costa Rica (Online).
Co-Presenter, Symposium on Structural Transformation and Inclusive Development: The Relevance of South Africa’s Challenges and Experience (November 3, 2021), Hybrid.
Presenter, South Africa Research Chair (SARChI) Industrial Development and Policy Seminar Series for 2021 on Political Economy of Industrial Policy: Considerations for African Economies (June 8, 2021), Online.
Presenter, The University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Amherst Political Economy Workshop on Greening Manufacturing with Professor Fiona Tregenna (April 23, 2021), Online.
Lecture, Chris Freeman Centenary Lecture Series on NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION AS AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOL (March 03, 2021), Online.
2020
Presenter, The TIPS Forum 2020 on Regional Industrial Development (July 28-27 and August 4-5, 2020), Online.
2019
Presenter, First Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network (December 2019), The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
Presenter, International Research Symposium. Post-Automation? Exploring Democratic Alternatives to Industry 4.0 (September 2019), Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Speaker, Early Career Plenary panel on ‘Opening up Development’, Development Studies Association Conference (June 2019), The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Presenter, Development Studies Association Conference on ‘Opening up Development’, The Open University (June 2019), Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
Presenter, Centre for the Studies of African Economies (CSAE) 2019 Conference (March 2019), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
2018
Presenter, 4th EAEPE Research Area X (RA[X]) Networks Workshop (November 2018), Budapest, Hungary.
Presenter, Globelics International Conference (October 2018), Accra, Ghana.
Presenter, Institute for New Economic Thinking-Young Scholars Initiative (INET-YSI) Africa Convening (August 2018), Harare, Zimbabwe.
Presenter, Development Studies Association Conference on ‘Global inequalities’, University of Manchester , United Kingdom.
Speaker, African Innovation Summit (June 2018), Kigali, Rwanda.
2017
Presenter, 3rd Africalics International Conference on Emerging Innovation Systems for Sustainable Industrial Development in Africa (November 2017), Oran, Algeria.
Presenter, 12th Globelics International Ph.D. Academy on innovation and Economic Development (May 2017), Research Center for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI), University of Tampere, Finland.
2016
Presenter, HESPI Conference on IGAD Economies (October 2016) , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Presenter, Informality and Development conference in Honour of Elinor Ostrom (October 2016), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America.
Presenter, 19th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (June 2016), World Bank Group, Washington DC, United States of America.