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Shivani is a healthcare actuary and part-time academic. She sees her work life as an extension of her meditation and yoga practice: an imperfect (but always evolving) attempt to bring careful attention to bear on socially-meaningful problems.

The healthcare system is the primary object of her intellectual affection. When she isn’t working (or reading something healthcare-related) you’ll find her hanging out with Dave, her son Shivam and Zadie & Bruno, the dachshunds. She spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about food. She also loves big cities, reading fiction & writing.

Anja is a development economist and part-time academic. She helped found Cenfri, a financial service think tank, in 2008. After spending eight years of her career consulting in the area of access to financial services and financial inclusion, she pursued a PhD in economics focusing on various South African health system questions. Through the PhD, she immersed herself in health sector research. She remains deeply interested and committed to broader societal development and the social delivery systems that support this.

Anja works for Percept as an economist and is also a part-time researcher for Research on Socio-Economic Policy (ReSEP) at Stellenbosch University’s Economics Department.

Rose is an economist with a deep interest in researching health systems and how they can be improved to deliver better and more equitable health outcomes. Rose joined Percept after previously working in financial inclusion and financial sector development. She holds an MSc in Health Economics and Decision Science from University College London and an MComm in Applied Economics from University of Cape Town.