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Curriculum Vitae: Frederick C.v.N. Fourie

Personal particulars

Full names: Frederick Christiaan van Niekerk Fourie

Place of birth: Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

Date of birth: September 24th, 1952

Married to Anna-Maria Venter, with two adult daughters

Citizenship: South African

Language: Fluent in English and Afrikaans

Qualifications

Matriculation: GreyCollege, Bloemfontein, 1970 (three distinctions)

University education:

1974:B.A. cum laude, University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa

Majors: Mathematics, Economics, Philosophy

Other subjects: Physics, Political Science, French

1975:B.A. Hons. (Economics) cum laude, UFS

1976:M.A. (Economics) cum laude, UFS

1980:M.A. (Economics), Harvard University, USA

1981:Ph.D. (Economics), Harvard University, USA

Academic career

1976:Junior lecturer in Economics, UFS

1977 - 1978:Lecturer in Economics, UFS

1980 - 1981:Course instructor, HarvardUniversity

1981:Senior lecturer in Economics, UFS

1982 - 1990:Professor in Economics, UFS (at age 29)

1991:Professor (promoted to level 7 post), UFS

1992:Professor (promoted to level 8 post), UFS

1998:Distinguished Professor, UFS

2009 - Senior Research fellow and Professor of Economics, UFS

2011 - Research affiliate, SALDRU, University of Cape Town

Management positions and roles

1992 - 1995:Chief Director: Department of Finance, Pretoria, as founder and part-time Head: Unit for Fiscal Analysis

1994 - 1996:Head, Department of Economics, UFS

1997 - 1999:Dean, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

1999 - 2002: Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Rector: Academic, UFS

2000 - 2002: Co-ordinator: UFS Turnaround Strategy

2000- 2002 (several extended periods): Acting Rector, UFS

2003 - 2008:Rector and Vice-Chancellor, UFS

Membership of university management bodies

1982 -Member, Senate of the UFS

1986 - 1988:Vice-chairman, Teachers’ Association of the UFS

1990 - 1992:Chairman, Library Committee of the Faculty ofEconomic and Management Sciences; Member, Library Committee of the Senate of the UFS

1992 -2002:Management Board for Publications, UFS

1992 -2006:Management Board of the Odeion String Quartet, UFS

1994:Chairman, Management Committee, Centre for Development Support

1994 - 1999:Executive Committee, Centre for Management Development, UFS (Chairman 1997-1999)

1994 - 1999:Executive Committee, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, UFS (Chairman 1997-1999)

1995 - 1999:Chairman, Senate Standing Committee on Academic Financing (SCAF)

1996:Member, Committee for Academic Structuring (CAS)

1997 - 1999:Member of various strategicacademic planning committees and task teams in capacity as Dean

1998 - 2001:Chairman, Portfolio Committee on Resource Planning

1998:Convenor, Committee on Library Financing

1998 -1999:Senate representative, Council of the UFS

1999 -Portfolio Committee on Teaching and Research (Chair)

1999 - 2003:Several committees and task teams in capacity as Vice-Rector

Role in economic policy and other contexts - provincial, national and international

1992 - 1994:Consultant to the World Bank on economic concentration and competition policy in South Africa

1992 - 1994:Founder and Part-time Head: Unit for Fiscal Analysis, Department of Finance, Pretoria
(Chief Director level)

1994:Convenor, Economic and Fiscal Focus Group, National Economic Forum Investigation into a National Public Works Programme

1994:Technical advisor, Commission of Investigation into the Tax System (Katz Commission)

1994 - 1995:Research consultant, Department of Finance, Pretoria

1994 - 1995:Member of task team and co-author of draft document to establish new competition policy framework, Ministry of Trade & Industry

1994 - 1995:Member, Strategic Management Team (SMT), Free State MEC for Finance -Mr Tate Makgoe

1995:Task team, Medium-term Expenditure Guideline Project (prepared for the National Cabinet)

1996:Member, Macro-economic Policy Co-ordination Working Group, Department of Finance, Pretoria

1999:Consultant, Competition Commission: staff training project; also responsible forestablishing a policy and research unit

1999:Research consultant, Department of Finance: public-private partnerships (PPPs); fiscal policy and savings

1982-99:Several private sector consultations on concentration, regulation, competition policy and mergers

1999-2004: Member of the Competition Tribunal

2002 - 2008:Member, Board of Directors, Farmovs-Parexel (UFS spin-off company)

2004 - 2007:Member, Board of Directors, PACOFS (Performing Arts Centre of the Free State)

2005 - 2007:Member, Premier’s Economic Advisory Council, Free StateProvincial Government

2006 - 2008:Member, Board, National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE), Kimberley

Awards

1988:First prize, national academic essay competition of the Institute for Research Methodology, Human Sciences Research Council.

1993:Second prize, national research competition of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)

1994:Second prize, national research competition of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)

1995:Best researcher award, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, UFS

1996:Best teacher award, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, UFS

1998: Appointed as distinguished professor, UFS

Research/study grants

1975:Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fellowship for Honours Study

1979/80:Rotary Foundation International Exchange Award

1980/81:HSRC scholarship for doctoral studies abroad

1980/81:Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust grant for doctoral studies

1983/84:Human Sciences Research Council research grant (Investigation into Intergroup Relations)

1988/89:HSRC ad hoc research grant

1989/90:HSRC Senior Research Grant for research abroad

1989/90:Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust grant for research abroad

1990:HSRC award for the presentation of a paper at a conference abroad

1995:HSRC award for the presentation of a paper at a conference abroad

1995/96:ErnestOppenheimerMemorialTrustUniversity Travelling Fellowship

Visits abroad

July 1978-June 1981: Doctoral studies, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

July 1989: Paper (by invitation): Government in the economy: the issue that won't go away, Lausanne Colloquium, Institut De Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

July - Dec. 1989: Honorary Visiting Fellow, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences & Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, U.K.

Sept/Oct. 1989: Visiting researcher, CambridgeUniversity.

January 1990: Visiting fellow, Max Planck Institute of International and Comparative Law

January 1990: Short visits to approximately 15 universities and institutes in Germany and the Netherlands

November 1990: Presentation of paper: The market as a complex societal phenomenon: a structural analysis, Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Florence, Italy

January 1991: Presentation of paper: Nationalisation alternatives: Rethinking ownership and control, Newick Park Conference, Battle, Sussex, U.K. (by invitation)

January 1991: Seminar: Economic options for post-apartheid South Africa, at the universities of Cambridge, York and Leeds (U.K.)

August 1991: Invited paper: Government in the economy: a conceptual rethink, Malvern Political Economy Conference, Malvern, U.K.

September 1991: Presentation of paper: Economic concentration and the efficacy of anti-inflationary demand policy in South Africa, Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Ferrara, Italy

August 1995: Presentation of paper: Fiscal federalisminSouth Africa: part of the problem or part of the solution? Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance, Lisbon, Portugal

September 1995: Paper: Shareholder associations, control contracts and the organization of the firm, Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Juan le Pins, France

July - December 1996: Visiting fellow, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund, WashingtonDC

May 1998: African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya

October 1998: Visit to DePaulUniversity, Chicago, to establish co-operation agreement

August 1999: Paper: Is fiscal sustainability possible? High interest rates, low growth and the general balance effect, Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance, Moscow, Russia

September 2000: Paper: Striking a balance between becoming entrepreneurial and nurturing the academic heartland: is this possible in a transforming higher education institution? OECD Institute for Management in Higher Education, Paris

August 2001: Paper: The political economy of fiscal sustainability: The South African transformation challenge(with P Burger).International Institute of Public Finance, Linz, Austria

April 2002: Visits to six British and European universities that are leaders in entrepreneurial research activities and technology transfer

2003 - 2006: Annual visits abroad to Farmovs-Parexel for board meetings, as well as partner institutions such as theDePaulUniversity in Chicago and PurdueUniversity in Indianapolis

Teaching experience

Undergraduate level: Intermediate macro-economics

Graduate level:

-Introductory Econometrics

-Applied Econometrics and model building

-Advanced Econometrics

-Macro-economics (also for MBA students)

-Advanced Macro-economics

-Industrial Organisation and Competition Policy

-Public Finance and Fiscal Policy

-Methodology of Economics

-Political Economy in South Africa

-Philosophy of Economics

Graduate student teaching

-Supervisor for two students who were awarded the Senbank Prize of the Economic Society of South Africa for the best Honours paper in Economics at a South African university.

-Three papers of Honours students conducting research under Prof Fourie’s supervision have been published in professional Economics journals.

-Fifteen papers of doctoral students under Prof Fourie’s supervision have been published in professional Economics journals, 1993-2000.

-Doctoral dissertations of three students under Prof Fourie’s supervisionwere awarded (in 1996, 1997 and 2001), the Founder's Medal of the Economic Society of South Africa for the best doctoral dissertation in Economics in South Africa.

Membership of professional associations

Economic Society of South Africa

European Association for Research in Industrial Economics

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

Miscellaneous academic activities

1982 – 1988:External examiner, Department of Economics, University of Cape Town

1988/90/94:Referee, Founder's Medal award of the Economic Society of South Africa for the best master’s or doctoral dissertation in Economics

1991 - 1997:External examiner (postgraduate), Department of Economics, University of the Witwatersrand

1995 - 1997External examiner (under- and postgraduate), Department of Economics, RhodesUniversity

External examiner of numerous master's and doctoral theses (Universities of Witwatersrand, Natal, Port Elizabeth, etc.)

Editorial activities

1981 - 1990:Editorial Board, Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics

1988 - 1998:Deputy Editor, Acta Academica

Referee, International Review of Applied Economics

Referee, Cambridge Journal of Economics (U.K.)

Referee, Journal for Studies in Economics & Econometrics

Referee, South African Journal of Economics

Referee, Development Southern Africa

Referee, Journal of Industrial Psychology

Referee, Management Dynamics

Editorial Board, The Budget Project, University of Cape Town

Referee, SA Network for Economic Research

Books

F.C.v.N. Fourie (2001): How to think and reason in macro-economics, Juta, Cape Town, 2nd edition.

F.C.v.N Fourie and P. Burger (2009), How to think and reason in macro-economics, 3rd edition,Juta, Cape Town, .

Scientific papers

A large number of papers were presented at national and international academic conferences. Since most of these have been published, as is evident below, they are not listed here.

Published scientific papers
  1. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1978): Milton Friedman's monetary rule - a critique of its principles and consequences, South African Journal of Economics. Included in 1990 in Milton Friedman: Critical Assessments, Routledge, London. This is an international selection of what is considered the major critical contributions with regard to the work of Friedman (Nobel prize winner in Economics).
  2. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1980a): Serial correlation, lagged variables and the choice between different consumption function specifications, Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics.
  3. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1980b): Serial correlation, lagged variables and the consumption function II: the simultaneous equation context, Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics.
  4. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1984): Industrial concentration and inflation in South Africa 1972-1979, South African Journal of Economics (also published in P.A. Black & B.A. Dollery, Leading Issues in South African Macroeconomics: Selected Readings, Southern Book Publishers, Sandton, 1989).
  5. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1986): Second thoughts on economic forecasting, South African Journal of Economics.
  6. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1986a): Die wisselwerking tussen ekonomie en politiek in Suid-Afrika, in Mostert J.P.C. (ed.), Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krisis: Perspektiewe op die Grondwetlike Bestel, INEG, Bloemfontein.
  7. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1986b): Die ekonomiese bestel en politieke hervorming: 'n prinsipiële ontleding, in Mostert J.P.C. (ed.), Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krisis: Perspektiewe op die Grondwetlike Bestel, Bloemfontein.
  8. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1987a): Mededingingsbeleid sedert 1984 - 'n Nuwe Wending?, South African Journal of Economics.
  9. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1987b): Issues and problems in South African competition policy, South African Journal of Economics.
  10. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1987a): Ekonomie en politiek in die Suid-Afrikaanse ontwikkelingsgeskiedenis: 'n historiografiese verkenning, Historia.
  11. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1987b): Die nuwe subsidieformule vir universiteite - is dit werklik in hulle belang?, Journal for the Humanities.
  12. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Pagel, C.A. (1988): Die aktiwiteite en benadering van die Raad op Mededinging 1980-1983, Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics.
  13. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1988): Ekonomiese regte en sosiale regte in 'n akte van menseregte?, Interim, Winter 1988, INVS, UFS.
  14. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1988a): Economic rights in a charter of human rights in South Africa?, South African Journal of Economics.
  15. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1988b): Social and economic human rights: an exploratory survey, Journal for Juridical Science.
  16. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1989a): Unemployment in conventional macro-economic theory: a suggestion, South African Journal of Economics.
  17. Fourie F.C.v.N. (1989b): The nature of firms and markets - do transaction approaches help?, South African Journal of Economics.
  18. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Booysen, A. (1989): Economic concentration and the variability of employment and production, Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics.
  19. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smit, M.R. (1989): Import-adjusted concentration trends in South African manufacturing industry, South African Journal of Economics.
  20. Fourie, F.C.v.N. Beukes, E.P. (1990): A critical evaluation of economic policy views across the political spectrum, Acta Academica.
  21. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1990): The Namibian constitution and economic rights, South African Journal on Human Rights.
  22. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1991): Economic concentration and the efficacy of anti-inflationary demand policy in South Africa, South African Journal of Economics.
  23. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1991): Ekonomiese hervorming en die valse keuse tussen kapitalisme en sosialisme, in Van der Walt, B.J. (ed.), Christelike Reformasie: Gister en Vandag, Institutefor Reformatory Studies, Potchefstroom.
  24. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1991): The nature of the market: a structural analysis, in G. Hodgson & E. Screpanti, Rethinking Economics: Markets, technology and economic evolution, Edward Elgar, U.K.
  25. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1992): Government in the economy: a Reformational rethink, Philosophia Reformata (Netherlands).
  26. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Beukes, E.P. (1992): Economic policy views across the political spectrum, in P. Hugo (ed.): Redistribution and Affirmative Action, Southern Publishers, Halfway House.
  27. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1992): 2 Februarie vir die ekonomie? Ekonomiese herstrukturering, liberalisering en legitimiteit, Acta Academica.
  28. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1992): Quest for economic justice, in G. Howe & P. le Roux (eds): Transforming the economy: policy options for South Africa, Durban: Indicator South Africa.
  29. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1993): In the beginning there were markets?, in C. Pitelis (ed.): Transaction costs, markets and hierarchies, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  30. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1993): Deconcentration, deconglomeration, demerger or nationalization? A survey and evaluation, South African Journal of Economics.
  31. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smith, A. (1993): Concentration, tariff protection and industrial performance in South Africa, South African Journal of Economics.
  32. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Owen, A. (1993): Value-added tax and regressivity in South Africa, South African Journal of Economics.
  33. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smith, A. (1994): The South African cement cartel: an economic evaluation, South African Journal of Economics.
  34. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smith, A. (1994): The structure, conduct and performance of the South African building materials industry, Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics.
  35. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Venter, W. (1994): Bedryfskonsentrasie in die rooivleisbedryf in perspektief, Agrekon.
  36. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smith, A. (1995): The South African cement cartel: a reply, South African Journal of Economics..
  37. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Steyn, W. (1996): Preserving the structure of personal income tax in times of inflation: a formula tax, South African Journal of Economics.
  38. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1996): Industrial concentration levels and trends in South Africa: completing the picture, South African Journal of Economics.
  39. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1996): Macro-economic balance or development? Towards a strategic framework for fiscal policy. Development Southern Africa.
  40. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1996): Separation of ownership and control: what is the problem? South AfricanJournal for Economic and Management Sciences.
  41. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Steyn, W. (1997): Preserving the structure of personal income tax in times of inflation: a formula tax, South African Journal of Economics.
  42. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smit, M.R. (1998): Monopoly and profits versus monopoly and wages: two sides of a coin? South African Journal of Economics.
  43. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smith, A. (1998): The concentration-profits stalemate I: causality and interpretation problems, South African Journal of Economics.
  44. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smith, A. (1999): The concentration-profits stalemate II: ideological rifts and methodological stress, South African Journal of Economics.
  45. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Burger, P. (2000): Is fiscal sustainability attainable? High interest rates, low growth and the general balance effect. South African Journal of Economics 68(2):212-245.
  46. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Burger, P. (2000): An economic analysis and assessment of public-private partnerships (PPPs). South African Journal of Economics; 68(4):693.
  47. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Burger, P. (2001): Fiscal implications of public-private partnerships. South African Journal of Economics 69(1):147-167.
  48. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Smith, A. (2001): Revisiting the concentration-profits relationship in South Africa: Moving the debate beyond deadlock. Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 25(2): 25-60.
  49. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Fourie, M. (2001). Striking a balance between becoming entrepreneurial, nurturing the academic heartland and transforming a higher education institution. Higher Education Management, 13(3): 65-84.
  50. Fourie, F.C.v.N. Burger, P. (2003). Fiscal sustainability and the South African transformation challenge. South African Journal of Economics.71:4 December.
  51. Booysen-Wolthers A., Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Botes, L. (2006): Changes in the development status of women in South Africa from 1996 to 2001: for the better or for the worse?, Development Southern Africa, December.
  52. Booysen-Wolthers A., Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Botes, L. (2011): The development status of women in South Africa: patterns and progressin the provinces. Development Southern Africa, March.

Working papers

Fourie, F.C.v.N. (2011): The South African unemployment debate: three worlds, three discourses?, SALDRU Working Paper 63, June.

Research reports

  1. Fourie, F.C.v.N. Beukes, E.P. (1982): Die noodsaaklikheid van 'n Derde Weg. Submission, President’s Council’s Investigation into the Free Market System in South Africa.
  2. Fourie, F.C.v.N. Beukes, E.P. (1984): 'n Teoretiese Ondersoek van Aspekte van die Verhouding tussen Sosio-ekonomiese Faktore en Politieke Hervorming.Report, HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations.
  3. Fourie, F.C.v.N., Beukes, E.P., Strauss, D.F.M., Brouwer, P. & Pretorius, J.L. (1984): 'n Teoretiese ontleding van staatkundige teorieë en modelle soos van toepassing op die Suid-Afrikaanse konstitusionele bestel en die moontlikhede om te ontwikkel in 'n breë verteenwoordigende regering.Report, HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations.
  4. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1989): Die invloed van ekonomiese konsentrasie op die effektiwiteit van anti-inflasionêre vraagbeleid in Suid-Afrika 1970-1986.Report of research project funded by the HSRC.
  5. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1991): Nuwe ontwikkelings en alternatiewe siening in die teorie en praktyk van mededingingsbeleid, en implikasies vir die beginsels en toepassing van Suid-Afrikaanse mededingingsbeleid.Report, overseas research project funded by HSRC.
  6. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1992): Concentration, tariff protection and industrial performance in South Africa. Research report for the World Bank.
  7. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1992): The structure, conduct and performance of the South African building materials industry, with specific reference to the cement industry. Research report for the World Bank.
  8. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1993): A strategic framework for public finance and fiscal policy?, Unit for Fiscal Analysis, Dept. of Finance, Pretoria.
  9. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1993): What should fiscal policy do?, Unit for Fiscal Analysis, Dept. of Finance, Pretoria.
  10. Fourie, F.C.v.N. et al. (1993): Job creation programmes: an economic and fiscal evaluation, Unit for Fiscal Analysis, Dept. of Finance, Pretoria.
  11. Fourie, F.C.v.N. et al. (1993): Towards a fiscal programme for South Africa, Unit for Fiscal Analysis, Dept. of Finance, Pretoria.
  12. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1993): How Regressive is Value-added Tax in South Africa?, Unit for Fiscal Analysis, Dept. of Finance, Pretoria.
  13. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1993): Economic concentration in South Africa: completing the picture, Report for the World Bank.
  14. Fourie, F.C.v.N. & Abedian, I. (1994): Fiscal and economic aspects of a public works programme, National Economic Forum, Johannesburg.
  15. Fourie, F.C.v.N. (1995): A projected macro-economic envelope for public investment (government and non-government) South Africa 1996/97 - 2000/01, Report for the Macro-economic Working Group.
  16. Fourie, F.C.v.N., Pretorius W., Lewis, D. (1995): Towards Competition Policy Reform, Report for the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Other activities