Leoné Walters

University of Cape Town

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Leoné is a Senior Research Officer in the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Situated within African political economy and economic history, she studies how political and institutional arrangements, and the legacies they leave behind, shape economic and social life across the continent, both past and present.

She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pretoria. Prior to joining REEP, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.