He has been in Durban since 2003, prior to which he spent eleven years at the University of Sussex. He did his postgraduate work and started his lecturing career at the University of Southampton, and before that worked for three years at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. Since working at IFS he has had an interest in industrial organization, particularly in the field of competition policy. His main research interest is in the field of incentive contracts and what is variously known as organizational economics or personnel economics. Working at Sussex and UKZN has also encouraged an interest in aspects of trade theory and development economics.