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Rashad Cassim is the Deputy Director General, Economic Statistics, in Statistics South Africa. He is responsible for the production of all official economic statistics in the country. Before joining Statistics South Africa in July 2006, he was the head of the school of economics and business sciences at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for three years. Prior to that, he was head of a think tank in South Africa called Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS).  He has a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town and his areas of interest include trade policy, economic growth and the relevance of research to policy-making. Some of his peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles are: ∙ Cassim, Rashad, 2006. "Reflections on South Africa's First Wave of Economic Reforms", in Padayachee (ed.), The Development Decade: Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994-2004, Cape Town, HSRC Press. ∙ Cassim, Rashad. and H. Zarenda, 2004. "South Africa's Trade Policy Paradigm Evolution or Involution", in Sidiropoulos, E. (ed.) South Africa's Foreign Policy - 1994-2004, SAIIA, Wits University. ∙ Cassim, Rashad and Haroon Bhorat, 2004 (March). "The challenge of growth, welfare and poverty in the South African economy since democracy: an exploratory review of selected issues", Development Southern Africa, Volume 21, Number 1.

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