Mastoera Sadan

Mastoera Sadan is a social policy analyst who has twenty-seven years professional experience. She has worked at a senior management level in the national government of South Africa for the past nineteen years, first in the Presidency and then in the National Planning Commission, in the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME). Her expertise is in social policy and poverty and inequality.

Currently she is the Chief Sector Expert: Social, in the National Planning Commission (NPC) Secretariat, DPME. Until 2018 she was the Programme Manager of the Programme to Support Pro-poor Policy Development (PSPPD II) in the DPME, a European Union funded programme. She successfully managed this research and capacity building Programme over an eleven-year period from 2007 – 2018, where she managed R150m in funding. During this time, she also managed the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), South Africa’s national panel study from 2006 – 2018 in the DPME. Prior to the PSPPD she worked in the Policy Coordination and Advisory Services (PCAS) in the Presidency.

She has previously worked in the NGO and higher education sector, at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) and at the University of the Western Cape.

Mastoera is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Johannesburg, she holds a MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics (LSE) and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford from 2002-2003