Grieve is a Zambian economist whose research focuses on African economic development. He is an associate professor of political economy at the Africa Institute as well as the coordinator of the Collective on African Political Economy (CAPE), a collection of emerging African academics and leaders of social movements interested in an emancipatory political economy as it relates to the African continent. Grieve previously served as a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a regular commentator on African economic issues, with opinions appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, CGTN, BBC, Mail and Guardian, People’s Dispatch, Lusaka Times, and Business Day, among many others. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Zambia and a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town.