Rate My Professor Ariane de Lannoy

Ariane De Lannoy is Associate Professor and Chief Researcher at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cape Town, awarded in 2008, and has more than 20 years of research experience focused on youth and youth development in post-apartheid South Africa, with extensions to broader African contexts. Her expertise includes the design and leadership of mixed-methods studies and multi-stakeholder projects addressing social inequality, youth unemployment, and youth well-being.

De Lannoy currently leads key initiatives under the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention, including the development and implementation of a Basic Package of Support for young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET), and the Youth Explorer platform, which maps youth well-being indicators alongside service provision and labour market data. She also contributes to work on NT-SARS-based indicators tracking formal employment distribution in South Africa. Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to identifying barriers to inclusion and informing evidence-based social policy interventions.

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