Prof Liberty Mncube
Deputy ChairpersonBSc (Economics), MSc (Economics) and PhD (Economics)
Professor Liberty Macebo Mncube is the Deputy Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal), appointed 01 February 2023. He joined the Competition Tribunal as an acting part-time Tribunal Member in January 2022. For the two and half years immediately prior to that, he was a Managing Director at FTI Consulting. He served as the Chief Economist of the Competition Commission (Commission), from January 2014 to February 2019. Prior to joining the Commission in 2007, he was a Researcher at the Development Policy Research Unit (University of Cape Town). Prof Mncube is an expert in the application of economics to competition law. He has extensive experience in providing expert economic testimony in several important merger control, abuse of dominance and collusion cases before the Tribunal for the Commission and private parties.
Prof Mncube is also an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Finance (University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)). He joined Wits in 2018. At Wits, his teaching, supervision and research focuses on industrial organization, competition economics and competition policy. His scholarship has been published in local and international journals, including the Review of Industrial Organization; Journal of Competition Law and Economics; Journal of Competition, Industry and Trade; Concurrences Review; and Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.
Prof Mncube has the honour of serving as a Member of President Cyril Ramaphosa's Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC, appointed in October 2019 and re-appointed in September 2022 until the end of the Sixth Administration.). He also served as a Member of Minister Ebrahim Patel’s Ministerial Advisory Panel tasked with developing Draft Amendments to the Competition Act which ultimately led to the Competition Amendment Act 18 of 2018. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and an MSc in Economics from the University of York.