Jasson Urbach is a primary field researcher for Enterprise Africa! He is a South African and has a masters degree in economics and a bachelors of commerce with majors in finance and economics from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.  His masters thesis was on "The Determinants of Labour Force Participation of the Elderly."

He works as an economic researcher at the Free Market Foundation and for Africa Fighting Malaria and has published both in academic papers and in the popular media.