Alumni overview
Our MERIT alumni leave the Masters in Public Policy and Human Development and/or PhD programme to pursue successful careers all over the world. As an alumn, you not only get a chance to stay involved with MERIT by potentially featuring as a guest lecturer in a course, participating in a conference or research project, or joining our Alumni Committee team, you can help more recent alumni increase their success in their field.
Explore the ways you can participate in the alumni community and UNU-MERIT initiatives:
The Alumni Office
The UNU-MERIT Alumni Office connects the alumni (PhD and MPP), current students, and UNU-MERIT. It aims to strategically strengthen its network of MERIT policymakers through targeted projects, initiatives, and resource-sharing for the purpose of strengthening alumni careers and alumni investments in UNU-MERIT. The engagements of the Alumni Office are focused on career building and knowledge sharing for alumni; networking between alumni, students, and practitioners; and opening alumni partnerships with UNU-MERIT.
Abigail Daley, Alumni Advisor & Akorshi Sengupta, Alumni Officer
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Through content curation for high-level Forum events, I bring together different stakeholders for topical discussions on addressing the world’s most pressing issues from a variety of different perspectives in order to find constructive solutions through multi-stakeholder dialogues.
Social protection is a human right, but most of the world’s population lacks access to it. At the ILO, I support countries to develop policies and measures to extend the coverage, adequacy, and sustainability of their social protection systems, helping to guarantee that everyone can access these essential schemes.
Development is often equated with economic growth, which tends to be selective as to whom it benefits. Families, communities, and countries that already have suffered from inequalities are mostly left behind. As an NGO leader, I work towards inclusive societal change by shifting power to community-based organizations and amplifying the voices of social movements.Alumni news
Alumna wins IMF Youth Fellowship Contest
15 March 2021
In late 2020, the International Monetary Fund launched a Youth Fellowship Contest to give aspiring young leaders a chance to share their views on COVID-19 responses and global efforts to build back better – towards a greener, fairer and more inclusive recovery. Out of around 700 submi...
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PhD alumnus honoured for work on sustainable mobility
08 February 2021
Affiliated researcher and PhD alumnus Dr Carlos Cadena Gaitán has been named one of the ‘21 Heroes of 2021’ by the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative, a global forum co-sponsored by UN-Habitat. Early in the pandemic, while working as Transport Secretary of Medellín in Colombia, ...
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In Memoriam: Simon Neuland (1990-2020)
30 November 2020
We have received the shocking and tragic news of the sudden passing away of our Master’s alumnus Simon Neuland at the age of 30, last Friday. Simon was part of the 2013-14 cohort on our Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP), in the Social Protection Spec...
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| Name: | Fauzan Ansyari |
| Thesis: | Teacher professional development interventions to promote data use in education |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot & Kristof de Witte |
| Name: | Chuks Otioma |
| Thesis: | Information and Communications Technology Capabilities, Innovation and Economic Performance in Africa: The Role of Framework Conditions, Entrepreneurial Activity and Firm Learning |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Promotor(s): | Fred Gault & Lili Wang |
| Name: | Nordine Es-Sadki |
| Thesis: | Technology Transfer in Europe An economic analysis of formal technology transfer activities of universities, research institutes and firms |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Rene Wintjes |
| Name: | Musa Hasen Ahmed |
| Thesis: | Essays on Development Economics: Climate Change, Education and Development |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Promotor(s): | Franziska Gassmann and Stephan Dietrich |
| Name: | Charlotte Mueller |
| Thesis: | Diaspora Return Visits for Knowledge Transfer and Capacity Development: A Case Study of IOM’s Connecting Diaspora for Development Project in Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Somaliland |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Promotor(s): | Melissa Siegel & Katie Kushminder |
| Name: | Sophie Gysan |
| Thesis: | Strategy Implementation and Decision Making in the Broader MNC Network |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Promotor(s): | John Hagedoorn & Hans van Kranenburg |
| Name: | Emanuela Sirtori |
| Thesis: | LED there be light The evolution in LED technology and dynamics of entry into the LED lighting market |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & René Belderbos |
| Name: | Godsway Tetteh |
| Thesis: | The Economic Outcomes of Financial Innovation and Digital Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen, Micheline Goedhuys and Maty Konte |
| Name: | Hiwot Mesfin |
| Thesis: | Essays on Human and Social Capital Formation |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Eleonora Nillesen, Francesco Cecchi and Nyasha Tirivayi |
| Name: | Radhika Mia |
| Thesis: | Firm Innovation Strategies in Alternative Energy Systems |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & René Wintjes |
| Name: | Francesco Iacoella |
| Thesis: | The Changing Role of Communication Technology in Reproductive Health: Essays from Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Franziska Gassmann and Nyasha Tirivayi |
| Name: | Francesca Rubiconto |
| Thesis: | Technical change, competitiveness, and employment. A sustainable perspective |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Roberto Fontana |
| Name: | Ngoc Pham Quang |
| Thesis: | Essays on Technical Change and Efficiency in a Transition Economy: The Case of Viet Nam |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Neil Foster-McGregor and Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | Erich de la Fuente |
| Thesis: | Limiting Media Freedom in Democratic States |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Michael Cichon, Mindel van de Laar and Eduardo Gamarra |
| Name: | Beatriz Calzada Olvera |
| Thesis: | Extractive Industries and Structural Transformation |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Neil Foster-McGregor |
| Name: | Silas Nsanzumuhire |
| Thesis: | Strategic Mechanisms for stimulating academia-industry collaboration in developing countries |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot & Kristof De Witte |
| Name: | Tamara A. Kool |
| Thesis: | Beyond the Right to Work: Labour Market Engagement of Protracted Refugees through a Social Exclusion Lens |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Khalid Koser, Zina S. Nimeh and Lutz Krebs |
| Name: | Victor Osei Kwadwo |
| Thesis: | Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Environmental Outcomes Impact, drivers and incentives |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | António Tavares and Tatiana Skripka |
| Name: | Guido Pialli |
| Thesis: | Essays on Technological Change and Income Distribution |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Cristiano Antonelli & Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | George Christopoulos |
| Thesis: | Regional patterns of innovation clustering and economic performance |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & René Wintjes |
| Name: | Maria Espinosa Romero |
| Thesis: | The Shadow of State Hierarchy Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Juan Calors Seijo, Julieta Marotta and Michal Natorski |
| Name: | Eliana Rubiano |
| Thesis: | Essays on Conflict-Induced Displacement and Gender in Colombia Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Melissa Siegel, Ortrun Merkle and Lisa Andersson |
| Name: | Purity Njagi |
| Thesis: | Financial risk, vulnerability and equity of access to health care services in Kenya |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot and Jelena Arseneijvic |
| Name: | Lorena Rivera Leon |
| Thesis: | Unveiling the determinants of scientific productivity in middle-income countries: An economics of science perspective |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan, Jacques Mairesse and Moritz Müller |
| Name: | Maria Klara Kuss |
| Thesis: | The Negotiations of Zambia’s Welfare Regime: The Transformative Potential of Social Cash Transfers |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Allister J. McGregor, Mark Bevir and Franziska Gassmann |
| Name: | Iulia Falcan |
| Thesis: | Transition towards a renewable European electricity system: What are the implications for the power technology mix, pan-European power trade and the electricity market? |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Thomas Ziesemer and Adriaan van Zon |
| Name: | Anne-Lore Fraikin |
| Thesis: | Social Security Incentives and Retirement Transitions in Belgium |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Alain Jousten and Alessio Brown |
| Name: | Gideon Ndubuisi |
| Thesis: | Essays on International Trade: The Roles of Institutions and Imported Intermediate Inputs |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Neil Foster-McGregor and Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | Caio Torres Mazzi |
| Thesis: | Learning, Capabilities and Governance in Global Value Chains |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Neil Foster-McGregor and Carlo Pietrobelli |
| Name: | Solomon Owusu |
| Thesis: | Powering Structural Transformation and Economic Development in Africa: The Role of Services, Manufacturing and Global Value Chains |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Neil Foster-McGregor and Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | Yip Ching Yu |
| Thesis: | Immigrant Welfare Dynamics in the Netherlands |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen, Melissa Siegel, Hans Schmeets and Zina Nimeh |
| Name: | Tatenda Zinyemba |
| Thesis: | Effects of HIV on Children and Youth's Educational Attainment |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot and Milena Pavlova |
| Name: | Rafael Lemaitre Carabias |
| Thesis: | Public Sector Innovation in the United Arab Emirates - How innovation occurs and what outcomes it delivers |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Jo Ritzen and Anthony Arundel |
| Name: | Bart Kleine Deters |
| Thesis: | A quantitative approach to the right to education; Concept, measurement, and effects |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Fons Coomans, Kaj Thomsson, Gustavo Arosemena and Zina Nimeh |
| Name: | Halefom Nigus |
| Thesis: | Markets and Human Behavior: Evidence from Artefactual Field Experiments |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Eleonora Nillesen, Pierre Mohnen and Salvatore Di Falco |
| Name: | Giulia Rossello |
| Thesis: | Social Transformations: The case of South African Academia |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan |
| Name: | Gloria Bernal |
| Thesis: | Preferences and Performance of High School Students in Response to Scholarships, Information, and Co-education |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Kristof de Witte and Mindel van de Laar |
| Name: | Philip Drauz |
| Thesis: | Who calls the shots and why? The role of actors and institutions in the response to the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Aneta Spendzharova, Christine Neuhold and Bertrand Candelon |
| Name: | Racky Balde |
| Thesis: | Essays on informal versus formal economy choices |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen and Théophile Azomahou |
| Name: | Atsuko Okuda |
| Thesis: | Towards e-compliance: Exploring the role of compliance and e-governance initiatives in the case of Bhutan |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Promotor(s): | Baharul Islam, Antonio Cordella and Mindel van de Laar |
| Name: | Gillian McFarland |
| Thesis: | Doing Policy in Further Education: An exploration of the enactment of the GCSE Resit Policy in Further Education Colleges in England |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Louis Volante and Mark Bevir |
| Name: | Omar Rodriguez |
| Thesis: | Essays on Entrepreneurship in Colombia |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Naudé & Arnaud Dupuy |
| Name: | Janyl Moldalieva |
| Thesis: | Playing the 'Game' of Transparency and Accountability in Kyrgyzstan's Natural Resource Governance |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Prof Dr T. Blom, Prof Dr J. Heathershaw, Dr Z. Nimeh |
| Name: | Ayla Bonfiglio |
| Thesis: | Student Migrant, Refugee or Both? Exploring Refugee Agency and Mobility through Tertiary Education in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Ronald Skeldon & Roger Zetter |
| Name: | Mary Kaltenberg |
| Thesis: | From Micro to Macro: Essays on Technological Change and Income Divergence |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen and Neil Foster-McGregor |
| Name: | Ornsaran Pomme Manuamorn |
| Thesis: | Governance of International Adaptation Finance for Local Climate Change Adaptation: An Analysis of Adaptation Fund Projects |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Shyama Ramani |
| Name: | Nora Jasmin Ragab |
| Thesis: | Diaspora Mobilisation in a Conflict Setting: The Emergence and Trajectories of Syrian Diaspora Mobilisation in Germany |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Khalid Koser and Melissa Siegel |
| Name: | Kaleab Haile |
| Thesis: | Essays on Rural Household Decision-Making Under Climate Risk |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Lonneke Nillesen & Nyasha Tirivayi |
| Name: | Emmanuel Buadi Mensah |
| Thesis: | Premature Deindustrialization and Structural Transformation in Africa |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Neil Foster-McGregor & Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | Rose Vincent |
| Thesis: | Essays in Public Economics: Multi-Layer Tax Structure and Implications |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Promotor(s): | Arno Riedl & Kaj Thomsson |
| Name: | Fernanda Assuncao Soares |
| Thesis: | The influence of within school and across schools’ collaborative practices on student learning and teaching outcomes in West Africa Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Kristof de Witte & Mindel van de Laar |
| Name: | Camilo Nicanor Carrillo Purin |
| Thesis: | Teachers’ in-service training and student achievement: The effect of in-service training of Peruvian teachers on student achievement Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink |
| Name: | Michal Kazimierczak |
| Thesis: | Regional Innovation And Entrepreneurship Patents, Trade Marks, Entry And Entrants Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Rene Belderbos & Micheline Goedhuys |
| Name: | Richard de Groot |
| Thesis: | Cash Transfers, Child Nutrition and Intra-Household Dynamics: Unpacking the Causal Mechanisms Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Michael Cichon, Nysasha Tirivayi and Franziska Gassman |
| Name: | Salih Cevikarslan |
| Thesis: | Innovation Strategies and their Implications for Technological Change and Market Outcomes: An Evolutionary Multi-Agent Based Modelling Approach |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | Hugo Confraria |
| Thesis: | Developing scientific capacity in the Global South |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen, Robin Cowan and Lili Wang |
| Name: | Nga Leopold |
| Thesis: | The implications of health insurance for the labour market and patient satisfaction with medical care in Vietnam |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot, Sonila M. Tomini & Florian Tomini |
| Name: | Arip Muttaqien |
| Thesis: | Essays on Inequality and Polarization: Empirical Studies in Developing Asia |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Cathal O’Donoghue and Denisa Sologon |
| Name: | Davina Osei |
| Thesis: | Corrupt or corrupted networks? An empirical enquiry |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Théophile Azomahou & Maty Konte |
| Name: | Norman G. Dytianquin |
| Thesis: | Technology in the Asian Miracle and Debacle Debates: Applications of and Insights from the Field of Influence Approach to Input-Output Analysis |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | Wondimagegn Tesfaye |
| Thesis: | Essays on the Impacts of Climate-Smart Agricultural Innovations on Household Welfare |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Théophile Azomahou and Nyasha Tirivayi |
| Name: | Alison Cathles |
| Thesis: | Educational Pathways and Skills: Past, Present and Future Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Jo Ritzen & Adam Szirmai |
| Name: | Ibrahima Kaba |
| Thesis: | Aggregate Fluctuations and Development: Essays on Macroeconomic Volatility and Economic Growth |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Théophile Azomahou and Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | Jemal Adem |
| Thesis: | Livelihood Vulnerability to Shocks, Behaviour and Investment in Education: Essays in Behavioural Development Economics |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Théophile Azomahou |
| Name: | Charlotte Keijser |
| Thesis: | Firm Participation, Learning and Innovation in Heterogeneous Value Chains of IT-enabled Services: The case of South Africa |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Rene Belderbos, Micheline Goedhuys & Michiko Iizuka |
| Name: | Nicolas Echarti |
| Thesis: | Employment Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation in Germany: A Quantitative Analysis Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Esther Schuring & Prof. Cathal O'Donoghue |
| Name: | Charlotte Guillard |
| Thesis: | Rethinking economic growth and structural change: The role of boundaries and linkages between industries Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan and Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | Shellie Solomon |
| Thesis: | Neighborhood Matters: Crime, Collective Efficacy and Foreclosures in Miami |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Cathal O’Donoghue and Hans Nelen |
| Name: | Ana Cristina Calderon Ramirez |
| Thesis: | Institutional isomorphism and Policy transfer in Public management reforms: Three stories about public procurement agencification in Latin America Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Mark Bevir and Gian Luigi Albano |
| Name: | Patima Chongcharoentanawat |
| Thesis: | Beyond A Snapshot Inequality: Economic Mobility and Policy Evaluation |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Franziska Gassmann & Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | Jinhyuck (Joseph) Park |
| Thesis: | Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Cross-border R&D Investments by Multinational Enterprises |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Rene Belderbos and Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | Danilo Spinola |
| Thesis: | Cycles, Economic Structures and External Constraints: A Structuralist Study on the Causes of Economic Volatility in Latin America Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Neil Foster-McGregor |
| Name: | Mira Bierbaum |
| Thesis: | New Mindsets to Innovate Activation |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Fred Zijlstra, Franziska Gassmann and Eleonora Nillesen |
| Name: | Catie Lott |
| Thesis: | Diamonds are a Woman’s Best Friend: Broadening Measures of Women’s Access to Formal Political Decision-Making Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Promotor(s): | Mark Bevir and Petra Meier |
| Name: | Mutinta Hambayi Nseluke |
| Thesis: | A Tall Order: Improving Child Linear Growth Diets, Transitions and Maternal Education Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot and Nyasha Tirivayi |
| Name: | Vincenzo Vinci |
| Thesis: | The Relevance of Institutions and People’s Preferences for Social Protection Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Franziska Gassmann & Pierre Mohnen |
| Name: | Ortrun Merkle |
| Thesis: | The myth of gender neutral power: corruption and gender norms |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Khalid Koser & Lutz Krebs |
| Name: | Choolwe Muzyamba |
| Thesis: | The role of community mobilization on maternal health outcomes in women living with HIV in Zambia |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova and Sonila M. Tomini |
| Name: | Elvis Avenyo |
| Thesis: | Innovation and firm performance in developing countries |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen & Maty Konte |
| Name: | Katrin Marchand |
| Thesis: | Essays on Forced Migration and Labour Market Participation |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Naudé & Melissa Siegel |
| Name: | Hassen Wako |
| Thesis: | Financing Development from External Sources: Essays on Aid, FDI and Trade Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Théophile T. Azomahou and Mbaye Diene |
| Name: | Clotilde Mahé |
| Thesis: | Essays on Migration and Occupational Choice |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Naudé and Melissa Siegel |
| Name: | Tatevik Poghosyan |
| Thesis: | How Board Networks Affect Firm Performance and Innovation Incentives in Transition Economies: The Case of Armenia |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan and David O’Brien |
| Name: | Silke Heuser |
| Thesis: | The Effectiveness of Environmental Policies on Reducing Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Cathal O'Donoghue, Ronald Skeldon & Jan Börner |
| Name: | Khaled Rajab |
| Thesis: | Strategic Planning under Fragility: The Role of Leadership in the Strategic Planning of Municipalities in Palestine Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szrimai, Paul Rabé and Forbes Davidson |
| Name: | Juan Carlos Castillo |
| Thesis: | Assessing the Role of the Export Sector in Mexican Economic Development, 1965-2014 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szrimai and Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | Stefania Innocenti |
| Thesis: | On Institutional persistence Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan & Eleonora Nillesen |
| Name: | Biljana Meshkovska |
| Thesis: | Life after trafficking: (re) integration processes of women that have been trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation in Europe |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Melissa Siegel & Arjan Bos |
| Name: | Caroline Wehner |
| Thesis: | Too Scared to Achieve: The Relation between Neuroticism, Conscientiousness and Socioeconomic Outcomes |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Lex Borghans and Trudie Schils |
| Name: | Jennifer Waidler |
| Thesis: | Social transfers and remittances: complements or substitutes for reducing poverty? |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen, Melissa Siegel & Franziska Gassmann |
| Name: | Tareq Abu-El-Haj |
| Thesis: | Food Security Policy Impact Analysis: The Econometrics of Cash and Food Assistance Cost Effectiveness Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Promotor(s): | Cathal O’Donoghue and Franziska Gassmann |
| Name: | Andrea Franco-Correa |
| Thesis: | On the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty as a Policy Tool: Empirical Applications to Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan, Fred Gault and Gaston Yalonetzky |
| Name: | Brenda Yamba |
| Thesis: | Schooling Despite All Odds: Evidence from Lesotho on Female Child Carers who Stayed in School Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Melissa Siegel, Katrin Kriz and Louis Volante |
| Name: | Clovis Freire Junior |
| Thesis: | Diversification and Structural Economic Dynamics Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Bart Los |
| Name: | Ali Safarnejad |
| Thesis: | Prioritizing the HIV Response A multi-criteria decision analysis Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot & Milena Pavlova |
| Name: | Andres Mideros Mora |
| Thesis: | Essays on the economic effects of non-contributory social protection Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Cathal O’Donoghue & Franziska Gassmann |
| Name: | Julieta Marotta |
| Thesis: | Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment of Victims of Domestic Violence through Legal Organizations in the City of Buenos Aires; A Qualitative Empirical Legal Study Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Jan M. Smits and Tatiana Skripka |
| Name: | Pui-hang Wong |
| Thesis: | The Hearts and Minds in Conflict and Peace: The Economics of Counterinsurgency and the Psychology of Reconstruction |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Khalid Koser & Lutz F. Krebs |
| Name: | Bernard Nikaj |
| Thesis: | From no-government to e-government Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Friso den Hertog & Antonio Cordella |
| Name: | Tobias Broich |
| Thesis: | New Actors in the Global Economy: The Case of Chinese Development Finance in Africa |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai & Kaj Thomsson |
| Name: | Hans-Erik Edsand |
| Thesis: | Winds of Change: Expanding Renewable Energies in Developing Countries Towards a better understanding of the determinants of technological transitions |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Fred Gault & Michiko Iizuka |
| Name: | Sheng Zhong |
| Thesis: | Moving Towards an Energy Efficient Future: Essays on Energy Efficiency, Technology and Development |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Nicola Cantore |
| Name: | Michael Verba |
| Thesis: | Innovation and Knowledge Dynamics; Essays on the Knowledge Economy Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Robin Cowan |
| Name: | Mahmut Kobal |
| Thesis: | Customs & Excellence: a comparative approach on administrative and regulatory compliance perspectives of the EU-Turkey customs union |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | Hildegard Schneider and Kristel de Smedt |
| Name: | Yesuf Awel |
| Thesis: | Insurance for Growth: Empirical Essays on Insurance Demand and Impacts in Africa |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | Theophile Azomahou |
| Name: | Eleni Abraham Yitbarek |
| Thesis: | Getting Ahead or left behind? Essays on Poverty Dynamics and Social Mobility in Africa |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | Theophile Azomahou and Franziska Gassmann |
| Name: | Serdar Turkeli |
| Thesis: | Governance of Innovation Policy: Empirical studies on applied political economy by multi-method analysis Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | René Kemp |
| Name: | Cecile Cherrier |
| Thesis: | The Expansion of Basic Social Protectionin Low-income Countries: An analysis of foreign aid actors’ role in theemergence of social transfers in sub-Saharan Africa Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | Michael Cichon & Franziska Gassmann |
| Name: | Ayokunu Adedokun |
| Thesis: | Pathways to Sustainable Peacebuilding in Divided Societies: Lessons and Experiences from Mozambique |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | Khalid Koser en Lutz Krebs |
| Name: | Eva Bartekova |
| Thesis: | Multi-Problem Challenges for a Renewable Future: Empirical Studies on Competitive Disadvantages from Electricity Price Differentials and Mineral Supply Risk in an Open Economy World |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | René Kemp and Thomas Ziesemer |
| Name: | Tigist Mekonnen Melesse |
| Thesis: | Grow More Food Using Fewer Resources: Agricultural Technology Adoption and Innovation Practices for Inclusive and Sustainable Development |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Promotor(s): | Theophile Azomahou |
| Name: | Mehmet Guney Celbis |
| Thesis: | Regional policies: convergence, trade and the allocation of public capital Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Joan Muysken, Peter Nijkamp & Denis de Crombrugghe |
| Name: | Michaella Vanore |
| Thesis: | Family-Member Migration and the Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Children in Moldova and Georgia Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Valentina Mazzucato & Melissa Siegel |
| Name: | Nevena Zhelyazkova |
| Thesis: | Work-Family Reconciliation and Use of Parental Leave in Luxembourg. Empirical Analysis of Administrative Records Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Joan Muysken and Gilbert Ritschard |
| Name: | A. Baseer Qazi |
| Thesis: | Knowledge flows and networks in the ICT sector: The case of Pakistan Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai and Robin Cowan |
| Name: | Paula Nagler |
| Thesis: | Occupational Choice in the Developing World Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen, Wim Naude & Milan Vodopivec |
| Name: | Richard Bluhm |
| Thesis: | Growth Dynamics and Development: Essays in Applied Econometrics and Political Economy Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai and Denis de Crombrugghe |
| Name: | Sonja Fransen |
| Thesis: | The economic and social effects of remittances and return migration in conflict-affected areas: the case of Burundi |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Valentina Mazzucato, Carlos Vargas-Silva and Khalid Koser |
| Name: | Derek Copp |
| Thesis: | Teacher-based reactivity to provincial large-scale assessment in Canada Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Jo Ritzen, Louis Volante and Jan van den Brakel |
| Name: | Alejandro Lavopa |
| Thesis: | Structural transformation and economic development. Can development traps be avoided? Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai & Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | Giorgio Triulzi |
| Thesis: | Looking for the right path. Technology Dynamics, Inventive Strategies and Catching-up in the Semiconductor Industry Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Önder Nomaler |
| Name: | Ibrahim Conteh |
| Thesis: | Natural Hazards and Education: The Impact of Floods on Primary School Education in Zambia Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Naudé and Georg Frerks |
| Name: | Ajay Thutupalli |
| Thesis: | Technology Paradigm Shifts in Agriculture: Drivers of Sustainability and Catch up |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Shyama Ramani |
| Name: | Francesca Guadagno |
| Thesis: | Why have so few countries industrialised? Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen & Adam Szirmai |
| Name: | Eduardo Urias |
| Thesis: | Improving access to HIV/AIDS treatment in Brazil: When are compulsory licenses effective in price negotiations? Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Promotor(s): | Shyama Ramani |
| Name: | Carlos Cadena Gaitan |
| Thesis: | Green Politics in Latin American Cities: Sustainable Transport Agendas Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete, Maria Figuerao en Juan Pablo Bocarejo |
| Name: | Cheng Boon Ong |
| Thesis: | Ethnic segregation in housing, schools and neigbourhoods in the Netherlands Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Henriette Maassen van den Brink & Kristof de Witte |
| Name: | Irina Burlacu |
| Thesis: | Challenges and perspectives of free movement for work: an evaluation of differential tax-benefit systems on the welfare of frontier workers Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Hildegard Schneider & Cathal O'Donghue |
| Name: | Oksana Celbis |
| Thesis: | Global Governance in the Management of Natural Resources: The case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete & Thomas Conzelmann |
| Name: | Özge Bilgili |
| Thesis: | Simultaneity in transnational migration research: Links between migrants' host and home country orientation Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Ronald Skeldon & Peggy Levitt |
| Name: | Sach Wry |
| Thesis: | Metachoice and Metadata: Innovating with Environmental Policy Analysis in Europe Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Michael Faure |
| Name: | François Lafond |
| Thesis: | The evolution of knowledge systems Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan |
| Name: | Katherine Kuschminder |
| Thesis: | Female Return Migration and Reintegration in Ethiopia Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Khalid Koser & Jean Pierre Cassarino |
| Name: | Fatoumata Diallo |
| Thesis: | Evaluation of meal and deworming programs for primary schools in rural Senegal Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Promotor(s): | Théophile Azomahou, Wladimir Raymond & Abdoulaye Diagne |
| Name: | Martin Rehm |
| Thesis: | Unified yet separated: Empirical study on the impact of hierarchical positions within communities of learning Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Gijselaers & Mien Segers |
| Name: | Sepideh Yousefzadeh |
| Thesis: | Childhoods embargoed: constructing and reconstructing multidimensional child poverty in Iran |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris de Neubourg & Franziska Gassman |
| Name: | Flavia Pereira de Carvalho |
| Thesis: | What we talk about when we talk about Brazilian multinationals: An investigation on Brazilian FDI, economic structure, innovation and the relationship between them Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Promotor(s): | Geert Duysters & Ionara Costa |
| Name: | Dorcas Mbuvi |
| Thesis: | Utility reforms and performance of the Urban Water Sector in Africa Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen, Sergio Perelman and Klaas Schwartz |
| Name: | Kirsten Wiebe |
| Thesis: | Quantitative assessment of sustainable development and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen & Adriaan van Zon |
| Name: | Zina Nimeh |
| Thesis: | Social citizenship rights: Inequality and exclusion Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris de Neubourg & Gøsta Esping-Andersen |
| Name: | Abdul Waheed |
| Thesis: | Size, competition, and innovative activities: a developing world perspective Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Promotor(s): | Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | Bilal Mirza |
| Thesis: | Energy Poverty and Rural Energy Markets in Pakistan Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai & René Kemp |
| Name: | Aziz Atamanov |
| Thesis: | Rural nonfarm employment and international migration as alternatives to agricultural employment: The case of Kyrgyzstan Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai and Marrit van den Berg |
| Name: | Nyasha Tirivayi |
| Thesis: | The Welfare Effects of Integrating AIDS Treatment with Food Transfers: Evidence from Zambia Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot |
| Name: | Evans Mupela |
| Thesis: | Connectivity and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of communication satellites Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai & Adriaan van Zon |
| Name: | Tina Saebi |
| Thesis: | Successfully managing alliance portfolios: An alliance capability view Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Geert Duysters & Ard-Pieter de Man |
| Name: | Lina Sonne |
| Thesis: | Innovation in Finance to Finance Innovation: Supporting pro-poor entrepreneur-based innovation Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan |
| Name: | Sonila Tomini |
| Thesis: | Informal Payments for health care services in Albania Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Wim Groot & Milena Pavlova |
| Name: | Daniel Vertesy |
| Thesis: | Interrupted Innovation: Emerging economies in the structure of the global aerospace industry Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Adam Szirmai |
| Name: | Lenka Eisenhamerová |
| Thesis: | Legitimacy of 'Humanitarian Military Intervention' Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris de Neubourg & Jan Hanousek |
| Name: | Florian Tomini |
| Thesis: | Between family and friends - Understanding the interdependency of private transfers Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Lex Borghans |
| Name: | Melissa Siegel |
| Thesis: | Money and Mobility: Migration and Remittances Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris de Neubourg |
| Name: | Zakaria Babutsidze |
| Thesis: | Essays on Economies with Heterogenous Interacting Consumers Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan |
| Name: | Asel Doranova |
| Thesis: | Technology transfer and learning under the Kyoto regime Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Geert Duysters & Ionara Costa |
| Name: | Sergey Filippov |
| Thesis: | Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: Corporate Change in New EU Member States |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Geert Duysters & Wilfred Dolfsma |
| Name: | Bertha Vallejo |
| Thesis: | Learning and Innovation Under Changing Market Conditions: The Auto Parts Industry in Mexico Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen & Lynn Mytelka |
| Name: | Victor Cebotari |
| Thesis: | Conflicting Demands in Ethnically Diverse Societies: Ethnopolitical Contention and Identity Values in Europe Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris de Neubourg & Maarten Vink |
| Name: | Jessica Sabine Hagen-Zanker |
| Thesis: | Modest expectations Causes and effects of migration on migrant households in source countries Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris de Neubourg, Pawel Kaczmarczyk & Carlo Azzarri |
| Name: | Donatus Kosi Ayitey |
| Thesis: | Technical Change, Competitiveness and Poverty Reduction: as study of the Ghanian Apparel Industry Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen & Kaushalesh Lal |
| Name: | Fernando Santiago-Rodriguez |
| Thesis: | Human resources management practices and learning for innovation in developing countries: pharmaceutical firms in Mexico Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan & Ludovico Alcorta |
| Name: | Alexis Habiyaremye |
| Thesis: | From primary commodity dependence to diversification and growth: Absorptive Capacity and Technological Catch Up in Botswana and Mauritius |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete & Thomas Ziesemer |
| Name: | Mirtha R. Muñiz Castillo |
| Thesis: | Human Development and Autonomy in Project Aid - Experiences from four bilateral projects in Nicaragua and El Salvador Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris de Neubourg, Des Gasper and Janet M. Billson |
| Name: | Semih Akçomak |
| Thesis: | The Impact of Social Capital on Economic and Social Outcomes Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Promotor(s): | Pierre Mohnen & Bas ter Weel |
| Name: | Yoseph Yilma Getachew |
| Thesis: | The role of public capital on economic development Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete |
| Name: | Suhail Sami Sultan |
| Thesis: | The Competitive Advantage of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: The Case of Jordan's Natural Stone Industry Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete & Dragan Nikolik |
| Name: | Bulat Sanditov |
| Thesis: | Essays on Social Learning and Innovation Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan |
| Name: | Geoffrey Gachino |
| Thesis: | Foreign direct investment, spillovers and innovation : the case of Kenyan manufacturing industry |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Promotor(s): | Lynn Mytelka and R. Rasiah |
| Name: | Samia S. O. M. Nour |
| Thesis: | Technological Change and Skill Development in the Arab Gulf Countries |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Promotor(s): | Joan Muysken & Thomas Ziesemer |
| Name: | Masaru Yarime |
| Thesis: | From End-of-Pipe Technology to Clean Technology Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Promotor(s): | Lynn Mytelka |
| Name: | Bas ter Weel |
| Thesis: | The computerization of the labour market Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete |
| Name: | John Adeoti |
| Thesis: | Technology Investment in Pollution Control in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the Nigerian Manufacturing Industry |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Promotor(s): | Robin Cowan, Lynn Mytelka & Rene Kemp |
| Name: | Marjolein Caniëls |
| Thesis: | Regional Growth Differentials: The Impact of Locally Bounded Knowledge Spillovers Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete & Bart Verspagen |
| Name: | René Kemp |
| Thesis: | Environmental Policy and Technical Change. A Comparison of the Technological Impact of Policy Instrument Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Promotor(s): | Andries Nentjes & Luc Soete |
| Name: | Geert Duysters |
| Thesis: | The Evolution of Complex Industrial Systems. The Dynamics of Major IT Sectors Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Promotor(s): | John Hagedoorn |
| Name: | Huub Meijers |
| Thesis: | On the Diffusion of Technologies in a Vintage Framework. Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Results Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Promotor(s): | Joan Muysken & Adriaan van Zon |
| Name: | Bart Verspagen |
| Thesis: | Uneven Growth between Interdependent Economies. An Evolutionary View on Technology Gaps, Trade and Growth Download (pdf) |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Promotor(s): | Luc Soete |
| Name: | John Hagedoorn |
| Thesis: | The Dynamic Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion. A Study in Process Control |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Promotor(s): | Chris Freeman & Luc Soete |
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