Dirk Willem te Velde

Dr Dirk Willem te Velde is the head of the International Economic Development Group. He led the European Report on Development 2012 on Confronting scarcity: managing water, energy and land for inclusive and sustainable growth launched in the run up to teh Rio+20 conference. He is currently undertaking work on the EU’s trade and investment policies and on policies and institutions to raise productivity in low income countries. He has written extensively on G20 issues, bringing developing country interests and research to the attention of the G20. Dirk Willem co-ordinated an influential study on the effects of the global financial crisis in 11 developing countries. He has advised donor agencies (e.g. DFID, Sida, and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs), parliaments (e.g. UK, Cambodia) and multilateral bodies (World Bank, European Commission, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNIDO, ILO, WTO LDC group) on the responses to the global financial crisis and other areas. He has written and edited several books, more than 25 journal articles and 25 book chapters related to investment, trade and growth issues. He holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London.