Nicola Viegi is the South African Reserve Bank Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Pretoria since 2010. His research areas are monetary economics, macroeconomics and political economy. A graduate from the Scottish Doctoral Programme in Economics, he has held positions at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and at the University of Cape Town. His main areas of research are economic policy theory, macroeconomic modelling and regional macroeconomic integration. Current research includes inflation targeting under uncertainty, monetary policy and assets prices, macroeconomic integration in Southern Africa.