Dr Fidelis Hove
Principal (Social Protection | Human Development)
Dr Fidelis Hove is a principal at the Human Development practice, based in South Africa, where he leads our work on social protection.
He is an economist and an experienced leader in advancing research, policy, and program implementation across Africa, focusing on unemployment, social protection, and social impact funding.
At Genesis, Fidelis has led numerous projects across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, optimising social protection systems by enhancing national strategies and policies, conducting public expenditure reviews, fiscal space analyses, and investment cases, as well as supporting the design and implementation of cash plus programs, digital payments, digital identity, and data exchange.
Before joining Genesis, Fidelis worked as a senior technical advisor at the Jobs Fund (National Treasury of the South Africa), where he headed the fund's investment origination team, managed a third of the fund's portfolio of projects/ investments and led the Fund's implementation of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention (PYEI).
Prior to joining the Jobs Fund, Fidelis worked at Oxford Policy Management as a consultant in the poverty and social protection portfolio, where he worked on social protection/ social security reform, emergency relief programmes, education and health financing in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Namibia.
Fidelis has also lectured undergraduate micro and macro-economics courses at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and worked as a researcher at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) and Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR).
He holds a doctorate, master's and undergraduate degrees in Economics from the University of Cape Town and completed the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford as well as several World Bank, IMF and ILO courses.
