Fiona Tregenna

Fiona Tregenna
OccupationsProfessor at the University of Johannesburg and Director at UNU-MERIT
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-disciplineIndustrial organisation, industrial development
Main interestsDeindustrialisation, structural change, industrial policy, heterodox and Marxian economics

Fiona Tregenna is a South African economist who is professor of economics at the University of Johannesburg and Director at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands. She holds the South African Research Chair in industrial development. She has been a member of the South African Competition Tribunal since 2013 and served on President Cyril Ramaphosa's Presidential Economic Advisory Council.

Tregenna's primary research interest is industrial development, especially structural change and deindustrialisation. She has also published on other topics in industrial organisation and competition economics, as well as on inequality and unemployment.