Speaker bio

Professor Luc Soete
Joint director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology

Luc Soete, joint director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, oversees the integration of the two institutes to form the new research and training centre, UNU-MERIT after serving as the founding director of MERIT in 1988.

His research interests cover the broad range of theoretical and empirical studies of the impact of technological change, in particular new information and communication technologies on employment, economic growth, and international trade and investment, as well as the related policy and measurement issues.

Soete is also a professor of international economics (on leave) at the University of Maastricht. Soete was appointed member of the Dutch scientific advisory body Adviesraad voor Wetenschap en Technologie, in January 2004.

Before Maastricht, he worked at the Department of Economics of the University of Antwerp, the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit both at the University of Sussex, and the Department of Economics at Stanford University.

Soete completed his first degrees in economics and development economics at the University of Ghent, Belgium, before obtaining his DPhil in economics at the University of Sussex.

Sessions Featuring This Speaker:
Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007, 8:30-10 a.m.

• Science, Technology and Development: Emerging Concepts and Visions

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