Dr. Kenneth Creamer is an academic economist based at the University of the Witwatersrand. 

Creamer has master’s degrees in law (Wits) and financial economics (SOAS, University of London) and a PhD (Wits), for which he was awarded a Gold Medal by the Economic Society of South Africa as South Africa’s best PhD in Economics submitted in 2010. In 2020, he completed a certificate course in Leading Economic Growth offered by Harvard Kennedy School.

Creamer is an NRF-rated researcher with a range of publications on fiscal policy, monetary policy, open economy macroeconomics, competition policy, and labor market policy, published in local and international academic journals and books, including the South African Journal of Economics, the Journal of Development Studies, and the Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa.

In addition to his senior lecturer position at Wits University, Creamer is a member of the Management Committee of SASSFE, which raises funds for tertiary education students in need of support.  He also serves in the management of Creamer Media and is the publisher of Engineering News, Mining Weekly, and Polity.

Creamer was Student Representative Council (SRC) President at Wits University in 1991-2 and worked as Research Coordinator in Cosatu’s Parliamentary Office in the mid-1990’s.

In October 2019, Creamer was appointed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the Presidential Economic Advisory Council for a three-year term.