Allan Davids
Senior Lecturer at University of Cape Town
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAllan Davids is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Cape Town with nine years of experience bridging academic research and entrepreneurial practice. His research focuses on housing, consumer and public finance, informed by visiting scholar roles at NYU Stern, INET Oxford and Imperial College that broadened his comparative perspectives. As co-founder and COO of Registree since 2018, he pairs rigorous empirical methods with product-building and operational leadership in the fintech/proptech space. He earned advanced degrees from Stellenbosch and a PhD from UCT, and has a track record of translating policy-relevant research into practical solutions for housing finance. Notably, his career blends public-sector roots—including youth leadership in Cape Town—with global research collaborations, giving him a rare mix of local impact and international academic networks.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Stellenberg High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics at University of Cape TownMaster's degree (Cum Laude), Economics, Master's degree (Cum Laude), Economics at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans, French
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Github Skills (6)
text-mining6
dplyr6
geospatial6
r6
spatial3
agent1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
allandav/Teaching
Jun 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
allandav/sabcom-paper
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contains the files and scripts necessary to replicate the paper: SABCoM: A Spatial Agent-Based Covid-19 Model
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
spatialagent-basedagentreplicate
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