Mr Krish Chetty
Mr Krish Chetty is a Chief Researcher at the Inclusive Economic Development (IED) division of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). His core research interests focuses on Knowledge Management, Digital Inclusion, the Future of Work, Financial Technologies and Renewable Energy. He previously worked in the HSRC?s BRICS Research Centre where he championed large studies of the FinTech market in Sub-Saharan market, a review of the Platform Economy in South Africa and developed a framework for promoting digital skills suitable for the labour market. He worked closely with a network of researchers from BRICS and the Global South to find solutions to the challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. His past research projects have provided him experience in the following areas: SDG Indicator construction, economic modelling, infrastructure financing, HIV monitoring and evaluation, and macroeconomic policy to target employment creation to address unemployment, poverty and inequality.
Mr Chetty has experience in both the public and private sectors in data warehouse management, data modelling and research, having worked at the Financial and Fiscal Commission, FNB Corporate Banking and Allan Gray. He has presented at numerous international conferences and won first prize at the BRICS Young Scientists Contest in 2015, in Sevastopol Russia. He completed a Master of Knowledge and Information Management (Cum Laude) at Stellenbosch University. His undergraduate degree is a BSC in Computer Science (2003).
Young people and relational wellbeing programme
The National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa was selected to develop this full application. The NRF is an independent, statutory body establ....
AI Research Toolset
The proposed demonstration project aims to illustrate the potential benefits of existing open-access AI services within the Equitable Education and Ec....
The 2021 Social unrest in South Africa: Future scenarios
In response to the social unrest and following a presentation by the HSRC to the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee (NICOC) the Department ....
Generating economic development from renewable energy: A city-level comparison of China and South Africa
The Project aims to generate new knowledge that will assist cities in South Africa and China to increase local economic development benefits transitio....
CPUT CAO Paralegal Study Project Budget (Pilot Study)
The purpose of this survey project is to provide access to the Bachelor of Paralegal Studies programme for community-based paralegals through an RPL p....
Future Work: Reconfiguring Informality in the Platform Economy
This study will look at how the platform economy is restructuring informality in 3 large economies that belong to the G20 i.e., India, South Africa a....
Vision 2018 (IEC)
Understand the level of employee knowledge and awareness of Vision 2018 To evaluate the extent to which organisational experiences match up to the gui....
Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST) project
a) Identify how transparency and accountability within the current systems for delivering and procuring infrastructure needs to be improved at a natio....
Banking on Africa: Opportunities for Fintech Development in Southern and Eastern Africa
The primary aim of the project is to identify how populations within low/middle income countries of Southern and Eastern Africa can benefit from oppor....
BRICS and African Development
Partial funding towards the BRICS and African Development conference....
BRICS Energy Architecture
The BRICS cluster will organise and host a workshop in preparation for the 2018 academic forum.....
Project on Developing an HSRC Indicator Dashboard project
There is a direct and urgent need to produce an HSRC Indicator Dashboard populated with HSRC produced survey data, as collated by Data Curation. This ....
DPSA PRRC Secondment
Analyse and Assess the Presidential Remuneration Review Commission files....
EJN BRICS FACT SHEET
Create a BRICS Fact Sheet focusing on the institutions and how they affects the normal people and civil society....
NIHSS Addendum Extension to the Service Level Agreement (SLA)
The purpose is to undertake the HSRC BRC - NIHSS/SABTT Research Collaboration: The BRC will conduct an audit of major BRICS research outlets and ide....
Analysis of the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1)
Among the direct and indirect factors influencing the persistence of poverty from childhood into adulthood are the consequences of poor childhood nutr....
Secondment agreement in respect of employees of the human science research council to the presidential remuneration review commission (PRRC)
Lead and coordinate the research unit performance, managing research of the performance , managing strategic relations regarding research and data sou....
Implementation of the Evaluation of the Integrated Justice System (IJS)
The study includes an analysis of challenges that the IJS has faced, and expects to face in its future execution of its mandate. This analysis will le....
Governance Index Implementation Plan
The HSRC seeks to develop a Good Governance Index for South Africa that would operate as a policy monitoring instrument and a tool for generating evid....