Professor Eric Schaling holds the Jelle Zijlstra Chair in International Finance at Wits Business School. In 1998, he was appointed full professor of economics at the University of Johannesburg. Eric has been an adviser to the National Treasury, the South African Reserve Bank, the SA Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Finance, SADC, the IMF, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Bank of Finland, De Nederlandse Bank and the South African Presidency. His research interests include Monetary policy, Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Optimal Control.