Ivor Chipkin is the Co-Founder and Director of the New South Institute (NSI). In 2017 Chipkin, with several colleagues, wrote and released the Betrayal of the Promise report, a study of state capture that had a huge political impact in South Africa and internationally. Chipkin completed his PhD at the École normale supérieure, Paris-Saclay, where he also did his Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA). Chipkin was an Oppenheimer Fellow at Oxford University. He is the author of Do South Africans Exist? (WUP: 2007) and Shadow State: the politics of state capture with Mark Swilling (WUP: 2018). He also teaches public policy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) at the University of Pretoria.