Dr. Eleni Yitbarek is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, a junior fellow at the Pan-African Scientific Research Council, and a research fellow of PEP (The Partnership for Economic Policy). She obtained her PhD in Development Economics from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She has a strong background in quantitative analysis and extensive experience designing and analysing household survey data for poverty and inequality analysis. Her primary research interest lies in poverty and inequality dynamics, socio-economic dimensions of economic shocks, intergenerational mobility, climate change and behavioural economics.