Prof Reena das Nair is the Executive Director at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED), Associate Professor and Programme Coordinator in the Master of Commerce in Competition and Economic Regulation programme at the School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Reena has worked for specialist economic consultancy Acacia Economics offering expertise in competition and regulatory economics. Prior to joining CCRED, Reena was Programme Manager: Industrial Policy at Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), a not-for-profit research organisation undertaking research for policy makers. Before TIPS, she worked as Principal Economist at the Competition Commission of South Africa where she undertook investigations and economic analysis in mergers, abuse of dominance and cartel cases. Reena provides training and capacity building for regulators and competition law and economics professionals in Southern and East Africa.

Her areas of research interest include competition dynamics in the grocery retail sector; global, regional and domestic food value chains, with a focus on barriers to entry for small and medium-sized and women-owned enterprises, and alternative routes to market in food systems.

Reena holds a PhD (Economics) from the University of Johannesburg and a MCom (Economics) from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has published widely, including in Geoforum, the International Review of Applied Economics, Development Southern Africa and the Journal of Energy in Southern Africa. She has also co-authored chapters in Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, HSRC Press, Jacana Media and Wits University Press book publications.