Fidelis Hove
Principal (Human Development)
Fidelis Hove is a principal at the Human Development practice. He leads our work on social protection and is based in Joburg.
He is an economist and experienced leader in successfully advancing research, policy and programme implementation across Africa, focusing on social impact funding, unemployment, social protection, poverty and inequality.
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.
