Career
Whiteside started his career as a freelance journalist and teacher in Mbabane, Swaziland before joining the Botswana Ministry of Finance and Development Planning as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow and a Planning Officer/Economist in 1980. He was a Research Fellow, Senior Research Felllow and Associate Professor at the Economic Research Unit at the University of Natal, from 1983 to 1997. Whiteside was an Associate and Director for Capricorn Africa Economic Associates, in Mbabane, Swaziland between 1988 and 1998. In 1998 he founded the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) and he was subsequently promoted to Professor. He is currently also a Senior Research Fellow at the Department for International Development(DFID).
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