Wim Naudé

Wim Naudé

Wim Naudé (Pretoria, 1968) is an economist and scholar. He is the Dean-Director of Maastricht School of Management, and holds the Special Chair in Business and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

He is also adjunct professor at Centrum Católica Graduate School of Business at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, Peru, a Research Fellow at the IZA-Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany; a Fellow of the Dutch Academy of Research in Entrepreneurship; and a researcher affiliated to the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE).[1]

Education and Career

Wim Naudé studied economics and econometrics at North-West University, South Africa (PhD 1994), and quantitative development economics at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where he obtained the MSc degree first class in 1991, and is awarded the Shiv Nath Prize.

He started his career in 1994 as a research officer and lecturer at the University of Oxford, working within the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and as Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In 2005 he was nominated to the Council of Statistics South Africa by the then Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel.

In 2007 Naudé joined the United Nations University's UNU-WIDER, then directed by Anthony Shorrocks, as Senior Research Fellow. In June 2010 he was invited to be lecturer in the Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Institute of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) of Brown University, USA.

Since 2011 he is Professional Fellow at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University, and Professorial Fellow of UNU-MERIT, a research institute of the United Nations University (UNU), and since 2013 he is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, the number one top economic institution in Germany.

Naudé joined the Maastricht School of Management (MSM) in 2011 and was appointed as Dean-Director in June 2012. In September 2012, as part of the 60-year celebrations of the School, H.R.H. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands visits MSM as guest of honor. In 2013 the Dutch Nuffic organization nominated MSM as finalist for the Orange Carpet Award, and in 2014 the Association for MBA’s (AMBAs) selected MSM as finalist for its annual AMBA Innovation Award. In November 2015 Naudé launches the first internationally accredited Executive MBA in Healthcare Management with MSM’s partner institution in Nanjing, China, in partnership with Nanjing University Business School, one of the top 5 ranked business schools in China.

While continuing as Dean-Director of MSM he also assumes as of November 2014 a Special Chair in Business and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Scientific Contributions

Wim Naudé has published widely on economic development, occupational choice and entrepreneurship. His work has contributed to and has been used and cited by many international agencies including the World Bank’s World Development Report 2008, the very first European Report on Development 2009/2010,[2] UNIDO’s Industrial Development Report 2016,[3] The OECD’s Donor Committee on Enterprise Development, USAID’s Entrepreneurship Toolkit, and other publications of UNIDO, UNCTAD, United Nations University, the Club de Madrid and other global development institutions.

His 2010 book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development was launched in February 2011 at the United Nations in New York and was favorably received by amongst other the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

His 2013 co-edited book on Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century was endorsed by Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank as making 'an invaluable contribution to the emerging literature on rethinking industrial policy'.

In 2015 Oxford University Press publishes his co-edited book on Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS. The book has been included in Oxford Scholarship Online since November 2015. Reviewing the book in International Affairs, the scientific journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Andrea Goldstein writes ‘This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of structural changes in first sustaining the emergence of the BRICS economies…and then making them resilient enough to weather the global economic crises’4.

According to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc/ IDEAS) Wim Naudé is ranked amongst the top 4% of economists in the world.

Wim Naudé is a descendant of Philippe Naudé "the Elder" (1654-1729) and Philippe Naudé "the Younger" (1684-1745), Professors of Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Arts (the Berlin Academy).[4]

References

  1. ↑ See: MACIMIDE Kick-Off Conference, Maastricht University Faculty of Law, 4 April 2014 at https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/programme-conference/.
  2. ↑ See: Think “Fragile First” warns European Development Report, European Commission, Brussels, 27 October 2009 at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-09-1589_en.htm?locale=en.
  3. ↑ See: See : Technology can deliver inclusive and sustainable industrial development: Industrial Development Report 2016, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, Vienna, 2 December 2015, at http://www.unido.org/news/press/technology-can-deliver-inclusive-and-sustainable-industrial-development-industrial-development-report-2016.html.
  4. ↑ See: Goldstein, A. (2015). Structural Change and industrial development in the BRICS edited by Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai and Nobuya Haraguchi, International Affairs, 91 (6): pp. 1427-1429 (see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2346.12470/epdf).

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