Estian Calitz (born 23 May 1949) is the executive director of finance and professor of economics at

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, South Africa since 2003. Calitz was born and grew up in the

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Province town of

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. After completing his master's degree in economics at Stellenbosch University, he first joined the

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, then the

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and

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.http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/estian-calitz-4854 Estian Calitz Retrieved 27 June 2011 He subsequently obtained a PhD in commerce from Stellenbosch University, South Africa in 1986. In 1989, Calitz became the deputy director-general at the South African Department of Finance and in 1993 he became the director-general. He left the government in 1996 to take up the post of professor of economics at the

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. Calitz returned to Stellenbosch University in 2001 as the dean of the faculty at the economics and management sciences.

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