Dr Grieve Chelwa is the Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute on Race and Political Economy at the New School. Prior to this, he was a Senior Lecturer in economics at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business. Dr Chelwa was an Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, and has previously been a visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Zambia and advanced degrees in economics, including a PhD, from the University of Cape Town.