Prof Chitiga-Mabugu is the Director and Head of the School of Public Management and Administration of the University of Pretoria. She is an Associate Editor of the Environment and Development Economics Journal based at Cambridge University Press and the Research Director for the Macro-Micro Policy Modeling research group at the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). Prof Chitiga-Mabugu obtained her Ph.D.in Economics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden with a research focus on the economy-wide impacts of public policies on income distribution. Her research interests are in tracing and analyzing the effects of government policies on households, and the broader economy. She has applied various modeling approaches to answering questions on environmental policies, trade policies, and various socio-economic policies, amongst others.