Kay Walsh is the managing director of Nova Economics, a specialist economic and strategy consultancy. Prior to founding Nova Economics, she led the economics advisory team within the strategy practice at Deloitte Consulting South Africa.Kay has over 15 years’ experience working as an economist in the consulting and investment banking industries. She has focused on the analysis of economic policy and regulation, market analysis, corporate strategy development, cost-benefit analysis and… Show more Kay Walsh is the managing director of Nova Economics, a specialist economic and strategy consultancy. Prior to founding Nova Economics, she led the economics advisory team within the strategy practice at Deloitte Consulting South Africa.Kay has over 15 years’ experience working as an economist in the consulting and investment banking industries. She has focused on the analysis of economic policy and regulation, market analysis, corporate strategy development, cost-benefit analysis and econometric modelling. Kay consults to clients across of a range of industries but has particularly strong experience in the energy and financial service sectors.Kay recently provided an expert opinion in the matter between Eskom and NERSA, on economic and regulatory issues that were central to the dispute regarding the determination of Eskom’s tariff in a series of historical revenue and RCA applications. She led a study to scope the market for off-grid cleaner energy solutions in five Southern African markets for the United Nations Development Programme and she also assisted the UNDP to develop a conceptual framework for the linkages between financial inclusion and inclusive economic growth. She produced an economic appraisal of two proposed hydroelectric plants in Malaysia for the national utility – Tenega Nasional Berhad.Kay has also represented her previous employers - Rand Merchant Bank and Deloitte on various national business and news television channels (including CNBC Africa, eNews, SABC and Summit), providing economic commentary and industry insight. Show less

Kay Walsh led the specialist economics advisory team within Monitor Deloitte, Deloitte’s premier strategy business. Kay has ten years’ experience working as an economist and strategist in the consulting and banking industries. In her capacity as a consulting economist she focused on the analysis of economic policy and regulation, development of business strategy, modelling and forecasting and market analysis. Her main areas of interest are energy and infrastructure economics and consumer… Show more Kay Walsh led the specialist economics advisory team within Monitor Deloitte, Deloitte’s premier strategy business. Kay has ten years’ experience working as an economist and strategist in the consulting and banking industries. In her capacity as a consulting economist she focused on the analysis of economic policy and regulation, development of business strategy, modelling and forecasting and market analysis. Her main areas of interest are energy and infrastructure economics and consumer business strategy.While at Deloitte Kay consulted to a wide range of public and private sector clients. Some of her most recent consulting experience includes managing the feasibility study of a proposed green technology special economic zone at Atlantis for the Department of Trade and Industry, assisting an international oil and gas firm to understand the electricity market and pricing dynamics in Southern Africa and assisting Eskom to understand policy options available to mitigate the impact on energy-intensive consumers of sharply increasing electricity prices. She also recently led a study for South African tourism do develop a marketing strategy for East and West Africa and design a strategy, business case and implementation plan for the province-wide broadband initiative for the Gauteng Provincial Government to as part of the Deloitte transaction advisory team. Prior to joining Deloitte, Kay was an economist in the Financial Markets Research Unit in at Rand Merchant Bank. Kay has also represented RMB and Deloitte on various national business and news television channels (including CNBC Africa, eNews, SABC and Summit), providing economic commentary and insight Show less

Prior to joining Deloitte I was employed as an economist in Rand Merchant Bank’s Financial Market Research team. The unit serviced both the external corporate and institutional clients of the bank and internal clients including those within the Firstrand group. My responsibilities included maintaining and distributing the banks macroeconomic forecasts (Inflation, GDP, currencies, interest rates, unemployment rate etc.), producing regular research notes, market commentary (eg. daily currency… Show more Prior to joining Deloitte I was employed as an economist in Rand Merchant Bank’s Financial Market Research team. The unit serviced both the external corporate and institutional clients of the bank and internal clients including those within the Firstrand group. My responsibilities included maintaining and distributing the banks macroeconomic forecasts (Inflation, GDP, currencies, interest rates, unemployment rate etc.), producing regular research notes, market commentary (eg. daily currency report) and data responses, economic modelling and forecasting which we distribute to a subscription list of approximately 4000 internal and external clients. The unit’s primary client was an internal division – Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) to whom I consulted regularly, providing research, daily updates and weekly presentations. I regularly accompany various FICC sales people on visits to large corporate clients to provide an economic backdrop to their product pitches. I also participated in road shows to corporate clients around South Africa and in some of subsidiary in SACU. On occasion I performed economic modelling for specific corporate client’s. I have also represented RMB on various national business and news television channels (including CNBC Africa, eNews, SABC and Summit), providing economic commentary and insight. I also participated in the Reuters Economist of the Year competition in 2008 on behalf of the bank and was placed 5th. Show less

I worked at Graham Muller Associates, an specialist economics and management consultancy in Durban from 2005 to 2007. Some of my project experience whilst working there:Contracted by Transnet, as a member of team of consultants from GMA and UKZN to develop and update container and commodity cargo forecasts (using methods from my masters research) for all the ports of South Africa as part of a wider project headed by engineering firm Prestidge Retief Dresner and Wijnberg to… Show more I worked at Graham Muller Associates, an specialist economics and management consultancy in Durban from 2005 to 2007. Some of my project experience whilst working there:Contracted by Transnet, as a member of team of consultants from GMA and UKZN to develop and update container and commodity cargo forecasts (using methods from my masters research) for all the ports of South Africa as part of a wider project headed by engineering firm Prestidge Retief Dresner and Wijnberg to update Transnet’s current national port masterplan.I was part of a team of economists who wrote an economic review of the greater eThekwini metropolitan economy in 2006. The report was commissioned by the Economic Development Division of the municipality and covers the structure of the Metropolitan economy, industry performance and outlook, services and delivery, the state of education and health and further challenges. I was seconded to the School of Development Studies, UKZN for a fixed term from April to July 2006 to work on a project in conjunction with TIPS for the Department of Trade and Industry to assist them in developing South Africa’s offer at the upcoming World Trade Organisation negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services. The report included a review of progress in the GATS negotiations to date and a summary of the barriers faced by South African companies when expanding their services abroad as well as extensive data analysis and case study material. Show less