Biography
Jeremy Simpson graduated from the University of Cape Town in March 2024 with a BCom (Hons) in Economics and a BSc in Economics and Mathematics. Currently he is working as a Management Consultant with Boston Consulting Group. In this role, Jeremy has worked in Global Health as well other strategy & business transformation engagements. While at UCT, he won two class medals in his honour’s year and placed 3rd in his cohort. In his final year, his thesis explored the Informal Sector’s role in South Africa’s Macroeconomy using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model.
Jeremy was also an active member of VARSITY Newspaper while at UCT, serving as a news reporter, deputy editor-in-chief and eventually its Publisher. Jeremy is an avid music lover and a singer, having sung in the Cape Town Youth Choir at university. In addition to choral music, he loves musical theatre and every opportunity he gets to perform it in the car with his sister.
While at Oxford, he hopes to pursue studies in Economics and Energy Systems with a focus on using multidisciplinary methods to address the challenges that developing countries will likely face from the Just Energy Transition.