Salimah Valiani, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg/South Africa
Dr. Salimah Valiani is an independent researcher and visiting lecturer at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of Witwatersrand. With an academic background in world historical political economy, her research specialisations are in the areas of economic development in historical perspective, the political economy of health care, the global care economy, and mineral extraction and development. She is the author of the research monograph, Rethinking Unequal Exchange: the global integration of nursing labour markets (University of Toronto Press: 2012); and authors' editor of The Future of Mining in South Africa: Sunset or Sunrise? (Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection: 2018). She has also published a range of policy papers, journal articles, and several popular articles on economic policy and economic justice. She is the 2012 Recipient of the Feminist Economics Rhonda Williams Prize – an award recognising feminist scholarship and activism in the spirit of the African American economist and advocate, Rhonda Williams.
