Annari de Waal

Dr Annari de Waal is a Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, part of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Pretoria, where she also obtained a Masters (Coursework) in Econometrics, a Bachelor (Honours) in Econometrics, and a Bachelor of Statistics. Additionally, she holds a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from Swinburne University of Technology. Her academic career includes a position as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria from January 2015 to July 2016, during which she contributed to teaching and research while completing her doctoral studies at the same institution. In 2023, she joined the University of Queensland on a three-year teaching-focused lecturer contract, where she coordinates and teaches courses such as ECON7021 The Macroeconomy and ECON7300 Monetary Economics.

Dr de Waal's research focuses on applied macroeconometrics, monetary economics, and global financial cycles, particularly analyzing the South African economy's responses to domestic and international shocks. Her notable publications include 'South Africa’s monetary policy independence: evidence from a Global New-Keynesian DSGE model' published in Applied Economics Letters in 2018 with Rangan Gupta and Charl Jooste, which investigates monetary policy autonomy using a DSGE framework; 'The impact of economic shocks in the rest of the world on South Africa: evidence from a Global VAR' in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade in 2016 with Reneé van Eyden, exploring global spillovers; 'Do we need a global VAR model to forecast inflation and output in South Africa?' in Applied Economics in 2015 with Reneé van Eyden and Rangan Gupta; and 'Monetary policy and inflation in South Africa: a VECM augmented with foreign variables' in the South African Journal of Economics in 2014 with Reneé van Eyden, employing vector error correction models. She has been recognized with the School of Economics Education Award for Designing Student Learning at the University of Queensland for integrating innovative teaching tools in ECON7021, the Standard Bank Prize for outstanding achievement in Econometrics at Masters level from the University of Pretoria in 2008, and a Commonwealth Scholarship during her PhD studies.

Professional Email: a.dewaal@uq.edu.au