Jeanette Snowball

Jen Snowball is a Professor of Economics at RU. She is also the Chief Research Strategist at the South African Cultural Observatory (SACO), which is an inter-university research unit funded by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture. Her research interests are focused mainly in the fields of cultural economics and environmental economics. Jen is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cultural Economics, and a member of the Association for Cultural Economics International. With Prof Gavin Fraser, Jen also co-ordinates the Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Focus Group (ENREFA) which includes masters and PhD students working on water footprint studies, environmental sustainability, energy economics and local economic development.

Research interests:

• Cultural and Creative Industries
• Cultural Policy
• Environmental and Natural Research Economics
• Market and non-market valuation studies.