Curriculum Vitae Hans-Dieter Evers Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Evers, Senior Fellow ZEF-Center for Development Research, University of Bonn Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany Tel. +49-(0)228-731971 Fax +49-(0)228-731972 Internet: www.zef.de E-mail: [email protected] Home: Auf der Ley 4, 53177 Bonn, Germany Tel. +49-(0)228-3868760 Fax +49-(0)228-3868758 Currently Eminent Visiting Professor, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam E-mail: [email protected], h/p +6014-9456927, https://sites.google.com/site/hansdieterevers/home NATIONALITY: German. Married, 4 children. EDUCATION: 1957-62 studied economics and sociology, U Hamburg, U Freiburg, U of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1962 Dr.phil., University Freiburg, Germany LANGUAGES: German, English, Indonesian, Malay (speaking, writing, reading, lecturing) French, Dutch, Spanish (reading) CURRENT POSITION: 2001- Professor emeritus and Senior Fellow, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn (on leave) 2012-14 Eminent Visiting Professor, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam PAST EMPLOYMENT: 2011-13 Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS), Universiti Sains Malaysia 2004-2005 Director, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn 1974-2001 University of Bielefeld, Professor, Faculty of Sociology Chairman, Sociology of Development Research Centre; Director, Institute for the Study of World Society; Dean, Faculty of Sociology 1971-74 University of Singapore Professor and Head, Dept. of Sociology 1967-71 Yale University, New Haven, Ct., USA 2 Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Southeast Asia Studies 1966-67 Northern Illinois University, USA Associate Professor of Sociology 1964-66 Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Lecturer in Sociology and Social Anthropology 1962-64 University of Mannheim, Germany Lecturer in Sociology 1960-62 Bergstraesser Institute for Cultural Research, Freiburg Research Fellow VISITING POSITIONS (selection) 2012 March, Visiting Research Fellow, Singapore Management University 2011 August to December, Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research and International Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 2011 Jan-July, Eminent Visiting Professor, Universiti Brunei Darulsalam 2010, 2011 Course on Knowledge Governance, Senior Executive Education Prorogramme, Universiti Brunei Darussalam 2008/09 Courses on Knowledge Management, Southern Institute of Sustainable Development, Academy of Social Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Can Tho University 2005 Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Singapore Management University 2003-09 Visiting Professor of Management, Singapore Management University and Executive Education Program, (MfA/Commonwealth Secretariat courses on Knowledge Managemen)t 1999 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore 1995-96 Visiting Professor of Sociology, Universiti Kebangsaam Malaysia 1992-94 Population Studies Center, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. Visiting Professor 1993 Faculty of Development Science, National University of Malaysia, Sabah Campus, Visiting Professor 1987-88 Population Studies Center, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta Senior Research Associate and Visiting Professor, Postgraduate Programme (S2) 1978-1980 Social Science Research Centre, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Visiting Professor 1977 Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford 1974-1976 Center for Policy Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Visiting Professorial Fellow CONSULTANCY: 2009 Deutsche Welle/German TV Academy, media studies 2003 Report writer, UNESCO World Report 2004 on “Knowledge Societies” 2001-02 Consultant and evaluator, “Support for Decentralisation Measures in NTT/NTB, Indonesia”, GTZ Project (German Technical Assistance) 2000 Off-Shore Unternehmungen deutscher Hochschulen, Feasibility Study 3 Indonesia (BMFT-DAAD) 1999 International Conference Advisor “Perspectives of Universities in Asia Facing Rapid Social and Economic Changes” in Chiang Mai, Thailand, GTZ 1995 Employment Policy and Planning Project, consultant, ILO 1995, 1996 Regional Development Project, Bandung, Indonesia, consultant to GTZ 1995 National Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Jakarta, Indonesia, advisor on the establishment of an Institute for Urban and Regional Development 1994 Study on Electrification and Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia, consultant to KfW (German Development Bank) 1992 Informal Sector Trade in Indonesia, ILO consultant, Jakarta 1990 Feasibility Study, 230kV Transmission Line Sucat-Balintawak, Philippines, Consultant, KfW (German Development Bank) 1989 World Bank, Indonesia Second University Development Project, consultant to the Inter-University Center, University of Indonesia, Jakarta 1989 NGO Consulting Project, Indonesia, Evaluation Report to the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung/ BMZ Federal Ministry of Development Cooperation 1988 National University of Malaysia, External Assessor, Faculty of Development Science (Evaluation Report) 1987 Re-integration Program, Evaluation of Yayasan Bina Bhakti, GTZ- CIM 1987 Oversea-Fellowship-Program, Indonesia, Feasibility Study for Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft / BPPT Jakarta (Technology Agency of the Government of Indonesia) 1986 ILO, Geneva, Consultant on urban poverty and employment in Indonesia 1982, 1983 World Bank/UNESCO, Second Indonesia University Development Project, Consultant EDITOR: 1982- Co-editor, "Internationales Asienforum - Quarterly of Asian Studies" 1998-2002 Member, editorial board, “Contemporary Sociology”, American Sociological Association 1990-94 Co-editor, "International Sociology", Journal of the International Sociological Association 1985-89 Editor, "Zeitschrift für Soziologie" (German Journal of Sociology) 1987-96 Co-editor, "Asien", Journal of the German Association for Asian Studies In addition, member of the editorial advisory board of several international journals RESEARCH: Research on urbanization, informal sector trade and labour markets, social mobility and stratification, development policies, mainly in Southeast Asia. Economic sociology, social transformation, social and cultural dimensions of market expansion. Current research interest: knowledge management, knowledge and development. 2000-2002 research grant, DFG (German Research Council) on “The Globalisation of 4 Knowledge” with field research in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Research programme WISDOM, Mekong Delta, Vietnam (German Ministry for Education and Research/German Space and Aeronautics Agency), and many others PUBLICATIONS: Numerous articles and books, among others: Modernization in Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press 1973 Sosiologi Perkotaan (Urban Sociology), Jakarta: LP3ES, 3rd ed.1986 Strategische Gruppen, Berlin: Reimers Verlag 1988, translated, Jakarta: Obor 1992 The Moral Economy of Trade, Ethnicity and Developing Markets (with H.Schrader). London: Routledge 1994 Southeast Asian Urbanism (with R. Korff), Münster: LIT 2000, New York: Macmillan 2001, Indonesian translation Jakarta 2002 Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia (with T. Menkhoff and Y.W. Chay), New Jersey, London and Singapore: World Scientific 2005 2nd ed 2010; Beyond the Knowledge Trap (with T. Menkhoff Y, .W. Chay, .E.F. Pang), New Jersey, London and Singapore: World Scientific 2011; The Straits of Malacca: Knowledge and Diversity, Berlin and London: LIT 2008 (with S. Gerke and A. Hornidge) For further details see https://sites.google.com/site/hansdieterevers/home 05/04/2012 .