Gaylor Montmasson-Clair

Gaylor Montmasson-Clair is a Director and Co-Founder of Southern Transitions, a Global South ‘just transition’ think-and-do-tank. He is also a Research Associate and Guest Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED). Prior to that, Gaylor was a Senior Economist at Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), a South Africa-based economic policy research institute, where he led work on sustainability and just transition. He was also the Facilitator for the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM), the industrialisation plan for South Africa’s renewable energy and battery storage value chain. Gaylor has been working in policy analysis and development, economic and climate diplomacy, and strategic facilitation for more than 15 years. He has carried extensive work on the (just) transition to an inclusive green economy from a Global South perspective, with a focus on policy frameworks, industrial development and just transition. He holds two Master’s degree, respectively in International Affairs from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) of Grenoble, France, and in Energy and Environment Economics from the Grenoble Faculty of Economics, France. He is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).