Leoné Walters

University of Cape Town

Leoné is a Senior Research Officer in the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP) at the University of Cape Town. She is an applied economist that combines insights from economics, political economy, and history. Currently, her research aims to better understand the political economy and economic history of the tobacco and alcohol landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pretoria. Prior to joining REEP, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.