Wim Naudé
Wim Naudé (Pretoria, 1968) is a South African-born development economist and scholar. He is Professorial Fellow at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University, Professorial Fellow of UNU-MERIT, a joint research institute of the United Nations University (UNU) and Maastricht University, as well as the acting Dean-Director of Maastricht School of Management.
Wim Naudé is also a member of the working committee on shared societies of the Club de Madrid, and senior affiliate of the Households in Conflict Network, and affiliate professor at Centrum Católica at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Wim Naudé studied economics and econometrics at North-West University, South Africa and quantitative development economics at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where he obtained the MSc degree first class in 1991, and is awarded the Shiv Nath Prize. He started his career in 1994 as a research officer and lecturer at the University of Oxford, working within the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and as Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Between 1996 and 2006 he worked mainly in South Africa, as a full professor and research director at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus. In 2001 he is a founding director of the North West Provincial Government’s parastatal Invest North West, and in 2005 he is nominated to the Council of Statistics South Africa by the then Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel.
In 2007 he joins UNU-WIDER, then directed by Anthony Shorrocks, as senior research fellow, where he directs research projects on entrepreneurship and development, fragility and development and industrial policy. In June 2010 he was invited lecturer in the Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Institute of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) of Brown University, USA.
As of June 2012 he is acting Dean-Director of the Maastricht School of Management, located in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
He has published widely on economic development and entrepreneurship. His work has contributed to and has been cited by many international agencies including the World Bank’s World Development Report 2008, the European Report on Development 2009, The OECD’s Donor Committee on Enterprise Development, USAID’s Entrepreneurship Toolkit, and publications of UNIDO, UNCTAD and others.
According to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc/ IDEAS) Wim Naudé is ranked amongst the top 4% of economists in the world.