Mr Michael Sachs

Michael Sachs is an Adjunct Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He leads the centre’s Public Economy Project, a research program on fiscal policy and public finance. He teaches at the Wits School of Economics and Finance and serves as Deputy Chair of the Finance and Fiscal Commission, an independent constitutional body that advises government.

Michael worked for many years in public policy and political strategy in South Africa. He is a former head of the budget office at the National Treasury. Before this, he was based at the national headquarters of the African National Congress, where he coordinated economic policy and led the party’s research agenda