DERG - Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen

Department of Economics | Faculty of Social Sciences | University of Copenhagen | DERG

... Activities ...

Current

2019 - present	Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER.

2019 - present	Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Development Research ZEF, University of Bonn. Since 2022 chair of ZEF’s Advisory Board.

2018 - present	Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of New Structural Economics, University of Peking.

2018 - present	Member of the University of Copenhagen review panel under the Research and Innovation Council (KUFIR).

2009 - present	Member of the Board, Journal of Development Studies (JDS).

2009 - present	Editor, Sustainability Science (SUST).

2004 - present	Resource person, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2015 chair of the thematic group one on poverty, labour markets and income distribution.

2001 - present	Full Member, European Development Research Network (EUDN).

1999 - present	External Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.

Previous

1998 - 2021	Member, Editorial Board, Journal of International Development (JID).
2009 - 2019	Member of the Advisory Board, The Centre for Globalization and Development at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

2017 - 2018	Member of the Advisory Panel for the Human Development Report 2018 (HDR2018).

2016 – 2018	Member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Production.

2016 - 2018	Member of the KOICA Advisory and Assessment Committee for DEEP (Development Experience Exchange Partnership) Program for the Vision of Vietnam.

2014 - 2018	Member of the KOICA Advisory Board for ODA Innovation.

2009 - 2018	Member of the International Advisory Group, Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI), Dublin, Ireland.

2001 - 2016	Senior Associate, Mekong Economics Ltd., Vietnam.

2013 - 2016	Member of the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) advising the Chief Economist of the World Bank.

2013 - 2015	First substitute member, Danida Appropriation Committee. Nominated by the Council for Development Policy and appointed by the Minister for Development Cooperation.

2012 - 2014	Member (and Deputy Chair), University of Copenhagen Developing Country Work Group (KU Uland).

2009 - 2014	Deputy Chair, Growth and Employment Platform, Danish Universities (DU).

2006 - 2012	Member, Programme Committee, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi, Kenya.

2005 - 2013	Member, Board of the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS).

2002 - 2012	Member, Danish Council for International Development Cooperation. Appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

2002 - 2005	Associate, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Network of IFPRI Associates (NIA).

2001 - 2003	Research Fellow, Rural Development Research Consortium (RDRC), University of California, Berkeley, USA.

2000 - 2002	Member, Proposal Evaluation Committee for the 2020 Vision Network for East Africa, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

1999 - 2001	Member, Danish Council for Development Research and the Danish Council for International Development Cooperation. Appointed by the Minister of Development Cooperation

1998 - 2001	Member, Danida advisory board on environmentally and socially sustainable development.

1997 - 2003	Member, steering committee, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Project on poverty, income distribution and labour market issues in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as the training sub-committee of this project.

1995 - 1998	Member of Danish Ministry of Research Task Force. Advising the Ministry on the EU special programme for research collaboration with third countries and international organizations (nominated by the Danish Social Science Research Council).

1994 - 2001	Member of the Danish FAO Advisory Committee, Ministry of Agriculture, independent expert.

1993 - 1998	Danish Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on the Economy of Greenland, independent counsellor