Sheunesu Zhou is an Associate Professorin the Department of Economics at the University of Zululand, South Africa where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate, economics and finance courses. He has written a number of original research articles on the topic of shadow banking under the broad theme of non-bank financial intermediation and financial development. Prof Zhou has wider research interests in financial economics and macroeconomic policy formulation, and the application of econometric methods in economic policy analysis.