Dr David Francis is the Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. His research interests focus on labour market economics, the informal economy and inequality. He was the researcher for the advisory panel on the minimum wage in South Africa and has previously worked as a development consultant and a policy and budget analyst at South Africa’s National Treasury. He has a PhD in economics from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MA in development studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a Bachelor of Social Sciences in economics and history from the University of Cape Town.