CRG Seminar: Africa in the Polycrisis, Vulnerability and Resilience

Wim Naudé is Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and a Fellow of the ASC, Leiden University, the Netherlands.  He is a development economist, focusing on the role of technology and entrepreneurship in sustainable development, with special attention to Africa.  Most recent past positions include an Endowed Chair at Maastricht University, an Honorary Professorship at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and a Visiting Professorship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Wim has also been Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. As a member of the liberation movement in South Africa, Wim served for 5 years as an elected councilor for the African National Congress (ANC) in the first democratic local government in the country (2000-2006). South Africa's finance minister appointed him to the Council of Statistics South Africa in 2005. According to Stanford/Elsevier, Wim is ranked amongst the top 2% of scientists worldwide. His most recent book “The Economic Decline of the West: Guns, Oil and Oligarchs” has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.