Jessika Bohlmann

• Research Specialist, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria

Dr. Jessika Bohlmann is currently appointed as a Research Specialist in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), and Research Project Manager of the SARChi Chair Just Energy Transition at the Department of Economics at UP. She is further contracted as Managing Editor and Special Issues Editor of Elsevier's Energy Policy journal and as Research Consultant for the Modelling and Policy Impact Analysis group at the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). She is the Vice-President of the South African Association for Energy Economics (SAAEE) and is currently serving on the Council of the Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA). Previously, she also completed contract work for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as an Energy Data Specialist.

Dr. Bohlmann's academic and contract work has mainly focused on energy and environmental policy, and sectoral economic impact analysis using both computable general equilibrium and econometric modelling methods. Dr. Bohlmann holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pretoria, and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University. She has also completed an Advanced Certificate in Emerging Markets and Risk Analysis from Fordham University, Certificates in Regional and Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling from the Centre of Policy Studies in Melbourne, Australia, and the Dynamic GTAP course at Purdue University in the United States.

• 2022–present Research associate, University of Pretoria, Dean's Office: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
• 2025–present Research officer, University of Pretoria, SARChI Chair Just Energy Transition, Department of Economics,
• 2022–present Managing Editor, Energy Policy, Elsevier
• 2024–present Special Issues Editor, Energy Policy, Elsevier

• 2020 University of Pretoria, PhD Economics

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