Person

Jones, Trevor

1948

Senior lecturer in the Dept. of Economics at the Univ. of Natal, Durban (1991)

Born 1948 in Cape Town. The son of a port engineer, so grew up with ports & ships as part of the landscape from an early age. Educated at DHS and the University of Natal Joined the School of Economics at the University of Natal in 1977, and served as Head of School during the mid-1990s and from 2006-2011 at UKZN. Introduced a maritime flavour into the economics curriculum through modules in Maritime Transport Economics and Port Economics, and then later introduced two postgraduate programmes (a Postgraduate Diploma and a Master of Commerce) in Maritime Studies. Retired formally end-2011 but re-hired in 2012 to oversee the establishment of a Unit of Maritime Law and Maritime Studies in the College of Law & Management Studies. This Unit opened formally in October 2012, and serves as the base from which the LLM in Maritime Law and the two Maritime Studies programmes are run. In 2016, still serving as Director of the Unit. Fairly active as a consultant, working among others for SAASOA, the National Department of Transport, the Ports Regulator and the eThekweni Municipality.