Professor Ingrid Woolard: Executive Dean (University of Sussex Business School)
Background
Ingrid joined the University of Sussex as Executive Dean of the University of Sussex Business School in January 2025.
Prior to her arrival at Sussex, Ingrid was Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She is Honorary Professor of the Economics of Poverty and Inequality at Groningen University and Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town.
She is a Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki, and a Research Associate at the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Ingrid was inducted into the Academy of Science of South Africa in 2022. Her areas of research specialisation include the measurement of poverty and inequality, unemployment, social protection, and fiscal policy. From 2025, Ingrid has been appointed to serve on the Economic Advisory Council of the South African President, his Excellency Mr Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa.
Ingrid is a member of the University Executive Team, the University Leadership Team and Senate.