Ivor Chipkin

Ivor Chipkin is the Co-Founder and Director of the New South Institute (NSI). He was the founder and director of the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town for ten years before that. In 2017 Chipkin, with several colleagues, wrote and released the Betrayal of the Promise report, a study of state capture that had a huge political impact in South Africa. Chipkin completed his PhD at the École normale supérieure, Paris-Saclay, where he also did his Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA). Chipkin was an Oppenheimer Fellow at Oxford University. He is the author of Do South Africans Exist? (WUP: 2007) and Shadow State: the politics of state capture with Mark Swilling (WUP: 2018). He also teaches public policy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) at the University of Pretoria.