Keynote Speakers
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Derek CHENEconomist |
Derek H. C. CHEN is an Economist with the Knowledge for Development Program, World Bank Institute. As a Singapore national, Derek received his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the National University of Singapore. In 1995, he continued to pursue his doctoral degree in Economics at the University of California, Davis. Upon graduation, he joined the World Bank in 2000.
Derek's fields of specialisation include economic growth, poverty analysis and demographic economics. Currently, he leads the Programme's research efforts on the effects of knowledge on long-term economic growth. Derek also manages the Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM-www.worldbank.org/kam) which is an online interactive tool that benchmarks countries' readiness for the knowledge economy.
Email: dchen2@worldbank.org
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Hans-Dieter EVERSProfessor and Senior Research FellowCenter for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn |
Hans-Dieter EVERS is Professor of Development Planning and Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. Formerly he was Professor and Chairman, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld, Germany. He received his D.Phil. degree from the University of Freiburg and subsequently taught sociology at Monash University ( Australia ) and at Yale University (USA), where he was also Director of Graduate Southeast Asia Studies. From 1971 to 74 he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Singapore. He also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University, the National University of Malaysia, the Science University of Malaysia (Penang), the EHESS (Paris), Trinity College ( Oxford ), the University of Hawaii and the National University of Singapore. During 2003 to 2006 he held visiting appointments as Professor of Management in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He also served (among others) as consultant to ILO, GTZ, UNESCO, the World Bank and KfW-German Development Bank. Currently he is engaged in research on social and cultural dimensions of knowledge based economies and knowledge governance.
For his full biography, please refer to his homepage here.
Email: hdevers@uni-bonn.de
