Cecilia Punt is a senior lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Stellenbosch University in the fields of econometrics, international trade and computable general equilibrium modeling. She is an alumni of both the University of the Free State and Stellenbosch University. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Stellenbosch University and joined Stellenbosch University in 2010. She worked at the Western Cape Department of Agriculture from 1998 till 2010 as manager of the Division for Macro and Resource Economics in the Agricultural Economics Programme; and she also headed the Provincial Decision-making Enabling (PROVIDE) Project, a national project to develop and apply a quantitative framework for multi-sector analysis in all the nine provinces.