Chikumbi, Lydia

Lydia Chikumbi is a postdoc research fellow at the EPRU -School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She received her Ph.D. and Master's in Economics from UCT and an honors degree from the University of Namibia. Her research interests are environmental and development economics, behavioral economics, financial economics, non-market valuations, climate change, energy, and agricultural economics.

She has dedicated most of her research to evaluating natural resources and reviewing African environmental policies. She worked with Environmental for Development on the 'Inclusive Green Economy' policy review and the IDRC project - Africa Regional Review on Low Carbon Transition & Gender Equity.

She applies techniques of choice behavior analysis, revealed and stated preferences, market and non-market valuation, time series analysis, and general econometric analysis.

Previously, she worked as a Business Development Specialist at the Bank and lectured economics (part-time) at the University of Zambia.

Research focus

Africa Regional Review on Low Carbon Transition & Gender Equity