Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz is an academic in the field of energy economics and is currently a professor in the Department of Economics and the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI Chair) in Just Energy Transition.

She completed her undergraduate studies in Greece at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki before she came to the University of Pretoria, where she completed her MCom in economics, cum laude. Her doctorate degree was awarded in 2011 from the Department of Economics, in which she proposed a benchmark-and-trade approach to improve electricity intensity in South Africa.

She is among the most prominent researchers in the field of economics, featuring in the top 10 economics authors of the African continent (https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.africa.html#authors) and consistently in the top 3 of South Africa (https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.southafrica.html#authors) based on the research of the last 10 years. She has published more than 100 academic papers in top international high ranked journals.