College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2020 43 International Development Economics Associates (India), Getulio Vargas Foundation Centere for Studies on New Developmentalism (Brazil), Columbia University Centere for Sustainable Development (USA), the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the YSI/ MIT Geography of Innovation and Complexity Online Conference. Pre-lockdown presentations were also made at the University of Mauritius and to Mauritian policymakers and stakeholders. These are in addition to a few national-level presentations. Several of our students and postdocs presented their research at virtual national and international conferences. For instance. Dr Zhuqing Mao presented her research at the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics and the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy international conferences, and Dr Paulo Morceiro delivered six presentations by invitation at international events. PuBliC and PoliCY engagemenT We were engaged in various research and advisory activities and presentations around the economic response to COVID-19. Prof Tregenna was deeply involved in economic policy and public engagement during 2020, including various high-level national and international roles in the COVID-19 economic response. She continued to serve on the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, advising President Ramaphosa on economic policy, in addition to serving on various high-level boards, councils, steering committees and panels. She was appointed as a Member of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Reviews and Evaluations Standing Panel and the ASSAf Membership Advisory Committee for Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as continuing to serve in several other ASSAf committees. She participated in closed economic colloquia and spoke at many policy events. She was also interviewed by television, radio, electronic and print media. Our postdocs have also been involved in various forms of public and policy engagement. For example, Dr Milene Tessarin and Dr Paulo Morceiro have presented webinars, been interviewed for a number of newspaper articles, while Paulo has started a blog. CaPaCiTY Building In addition to supervision, SARChI-ID made various broader contributions to capacity. This included the capacity building of young scholars internationally as Prof Tregenna lectured at the Young Scholars Initiative; National School of Government (South Africa); Summer School of University of Campinas (Brazil); and the United Nations UNCTAD YSI Summer School (Geneva). Prof Tregenna also mentored, including through the Accelerated Academic Mentorship Programme (AAMP). We arranged and funded additional external training for our postgraduate students. Our PDRF Dr Clement Mulamba taught a course in the MPhil Industrial Policy programme.
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