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Chair of the Board of the Global Labour Column & Founding editor (2009 – 2019): Nicolas Pons-Vignon is a Senior Researcher at the School of Economics and Finance, Wits University, South Africa, where he co-ordinates the Masters in Applied Development Economics. Nicolas is a political economist interested in exploring the contradictions of capitalist accumulation; his research focuses on economic development, as well as on the political economy of industrial policy and of labour transformations. He is the founder of the African Programme for Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE). Before coming to South Africa in 2004, Nicolas was a consultant at the OECD Development Centre and worked for an international NGO in Morocco, London and Paris. Nicolas holds a PhD from EHESS (Paris).

Claire Ceruti has been the editor of the GLC since October 2019, and before that she was an occasional sub-editor on the column for three years. She is currently also writing up her doctorate (Working title: The hidden element: public striker identities over two politicised strikes) and teaches economic geography and sociology sessionally. She co-authored the award-winning book Class in Soweto (2013, UKZN Press). Claire has been a lifelong pieceworker. Previously she was a researcher at the East Cape Land Committee and the Farmworkers’ Research and Resource Project, and she subedited in the newsroom of Business Report (a leading South African business paper) for five years, amongst other things which have included researching or compiling numerous reports for local rights and equality organisations as well as editing many student theses and journal articles. She holds a masters’ in industrial sociology from the University of the Witwatersand.