Tshepo Ntsane

Profile

I am a first year part-time PGR in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Leeds. I completed a MPhil in Business Management International Business (with distinction) in 2023, and my research topic was Factor endowments as predictors of bilateral trade flows between countries. I also completed an MBA in 2021, and my research topic was Evaluating the impact of state-owned development finance institutions in stimulating job creation and economic growth in South Africa. My undergraduate qualification is a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Chemical Engineering (with honours) completed in 2009.

My research aims to integrate green growth and post-growth economic frameworks to formulate Sub-Saharan Africa’s future Paris-aligned energy pathways, specifically by operationalising the Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) principle to quantify the region’s fair-share infrastructure carbon budget, synthesizing green and post-growth economic paradigms to model non-linear, technological leapfrogging pathways within the region’s energy sector, and evaluating and designing polycentric governance architectures capable of regulating cross-border, non-linear energy pathways.

Research interests

Climate change mitigation, Paris Agreement, just energy transition, and sustainable economic policy

Qualifications

• MPhil Business Management - International Business (with distinction), University of Pretoria
• MBA, University of Witwatersrand
• BSc in Engineering in Chemical Engineering (with honours), University of Cape Town

Research groups and institutes

• Sustainability Research Institute
• Economics and Policy for Sustainability