Jan Willem GUNNING

Jan Willem GUNNING

Emeritus Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Senior Fellow, FERDI

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Jan Willem Gunning is Emeritus Professor of development economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and board member of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development (AIID).

Previously he was professor at the University of Oxford where he directed the Centre for the Study of African Economies. He has also been a staff member of the World Bank in Washington DC.

His research interests include impact evaluation, changes in poverty, and the effect of risk on growth in rural societies.

He holds an honorary doctorate of the university of Auvergne (France), awarded for his leading role in economic research on Africa. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and served as the Academy's General Secretary 2011-16. 

He is a Senior Fellow at the FERDI.

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