Guangling Liu is a professor of economics at Stellenbosch University. His research interests lie in macroeconomics, macro-finance, international finance and monetary economics. He has taught macroeconomics, time series econometrics and mathematical economics at postgraduate level and has published numerous papers in respected macroeconomics and finance journals. He held a research fellow position at the South African Reserve Bank and a senior lecturer position at the University of Johannesburg in the past. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Pretoria, prior to which he gained six years’ professional experience in financial markets.