Robin Sherbourne

Mr. Robin Sherbourne is an Economist at IJG Securities.
He was the first Overseas Development Institute fellow to be placed in Namibia starting in 1991 as a researcher at the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit and as an economic advisor in the National Planning Commission until 1995.
He then spent two years as an economic advisor in the UK’s Department of the Environment before returning to Namibia.
He became well-known as a newspaper columnist and commentator on local economic affairs in his weekly column “Economic Eye” in The Namibian between 1998 and 2000.
He introduced a course at the University of Namibia on the Namibian economy and as an economic and business analyst helped develop the research programme of IJG Securities.
In 2000 Robin established the Windhoek-based Institute for Public Policy Research, where he is still a board member, and in 2004 the current affairs monthly Insight Namibia magazine.
He worked briefly as an advisor to the Research Department of the Bank of Namibia in 2008 before becoming the first Group Economist for Old Mutual, Nedbank and NedCapital in Namibia.
He is now an independent economist.
He has a long list of publications on the Namibian economy to his name including the Guide to the Namibian Economy.
Mr. Sherbourne holds a BA in physics from Oxford University and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics in the UK.