Ihsaan Bassier is a labour and development economist, working primarily in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey. His research focuses on firm wage-setting power and its consequences for group inequality, institutions and structural development. He is affiliated with the CEP at the London School of Economics and SALDRU at the University of Cape Town. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and B.Sc. from the University of Cape Town.