BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Phemelo is a mathematical economist with experience in international trade, risk management in both policy spaces and financial services industry. He received training on mathematical models and methods to economics and finance from University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne (France) and Bielefeld University (Germany). His rearch interests revolve around laveraging from fintech technology as an enabler of the transition to sustainable economies, international trade, induatrial organization and climate change mitigation.

He successfully completed his PhD Economics “magna cum laude” in 2017 and MSc Mathematical Economics in 2013 both from Bielefeld University, Germany. His thesis was entitled “Essays in International Trade, Multinational Firm Production and Economic Growth”. The research project applied mathematical economic techniques to investigate topical issues of international trade, growth and public finance under open economy set-ups and in both static and continuous time frame-works. Moreover, from 2013 to 2017 Phemelo was a teaching and research assistant at the Chair of International Trade at Bielefeld University, in Germany. He was mainly responsible for teaching international economics/trade to undergraduate students. Phemelo supervised master’s degree students writing term papers about transfer pricing. Since May 2017, Phemelo was engaged as a consultant and Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG Germany within the department of Transfer Pricing. He advised high-ranking groups of multinational companies on tax 
optimisation along the value chains. He currently operates within the areas of data analytics and risk management in the fintech industry.