Curriculum Vitae
Katie Herold
Address
Phone: +27 21 671 1402
PO Box 46830, Glosderry, Cape Town, 7702
Fax: +27 21 671 1409
Cell: +27 79 879 0796
South Africa
katie@pdg.co.za
Personal
Date of birth:
9 December 1986
Languages:
English (First Lang), Afrikaans (Second Lang), isiXhosa
(Third Lang)
Education
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Masters of Commerce in Economics by dissertation only, University of Cape
Town, 2010-2011
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Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Economics obtained with Distinction,
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 2009
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Bachelor of Commerce in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (BCom PPE),
University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006-2008
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Herschel Girls’ School, Cape Town, 2004
Field of Specialisation
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Interested in environmental and agricultural economics; water supply costing
and the valuation of environmental ecosystem services and urban
development and municipal finance
PDG project experience
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December 2011– 2013: Palmer Development Group (Consultant)
Since joining PDG in December 2011, Katie has been involved in the area of
municipal and project finance, updating the national solid waste tariff model and
assessing the viability of the City of Windhoek’s Landfill Gas to Energy project.
She has worked in the field of monitoring and evaluation, reviewing the Limpopo
M&E Framework and the Assessment of Government Evaluations for the DPME.
She’s worked in the area of social development and environmental sector,
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Curriculum Vitae: Katie Herold
researching the demand for water in rural agriculture and the challenges facing
Water User Associations. She was involved in a greenhouse gas mitigation project
for DEA, focusing specifically on the AFOLU (Agricultural, Forestry and Other Land
Use) emission projections in addition to assessing the socio-economic impact of
all the proposed mitigation options. She was part of the Municipal Benchmark
Initiative team; a flagship SALGA/WRC initiative to support municipal
performance improvement within Water Services. She’s worked on urban system
projects, focusing on township economics, with an emphasis on the nonresidential property market and more recently, analysing the impact of spatial
growth on municipal sustainability in the Western Cape.
Previous experience
2009 Honour’s project
“The Economics of a Payment for Watershed Services (PWS) in the Western
Baviaanskloof”
 Critical analysis of the PWS scheme and the valuation of ecosystem goods
and services
2010-2011 Master’s Dissertation
“The Economics of Water Supply in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality”
 Specific focus on urban water supply augmentation schemes, water
costing, the economic value of water and water in agriculture
 Research skills required conducting interviews with farmers, municipal
members and engineers and independent data collection
2010-2011: ASSET Research Paper
“The Economics of Restoration: Investigating the economic value of the change in
ecosystem services as a result of restoration in the Kromme River Catchment and
the Waterberg District Savanna”
 Research in collaboration with ecology and hydrology students
 Specific focus environmental economics focus areas: impact of alien
infestations in catchment areas, destruction of wetlands from poor landuse and bush encroachment in savanna areas
 Economic evaluation of environmental ecosystem services
2011: Consulting assistance (Sept-Oct)
 Data analysis: updated socio-economic baseline survey for De Wit
Sustainable Options (Pty) Ltd
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