Antony Boting co-founded StratEcon in 2001 and has led the firm’s growth into one of Southern Africa’s most respected applied economics consultancies. Holding a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA, he brings a rare combination of engineering rigour and economic sophistication to complex infrastructure and investment decisions. Over more than two decades, Antony has built StratEcon into a trusted adviser to national governments, development finance institutions, regulators and major private sector clients across Africa, delivering economic modelling and analysis that is technically exacting and strategically actionable.
His distinctive strength lies in translating complex infrastructure projects – roads, rail networks, energy systems, public-private partnerships into economic models that decision-makers can interrogate, stress-test and act upon with confidence. He is widely regarded as the firm’s lead quantitative economist, with deep expertise in cost-benefit analysis, financial modelling, macroeconomic impact assessment and CGE (computable general equilibrium) modelling. Antony has also contributed to the academic field, lecturing at postgraduate level at the University of Cape Town on the economic assessment of transport and electricity projects. He is currently writing the guidelines on cost benefit analysis for transport projects for the City of Cape Town.