UNU Experts

Expert Professorial Fellow

Kristof de Witte

Kristof De Witte is a full professor (gewoon hoogleraar) in Education Economics and Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, Belgium, and he holds the chair in ‘Effectiveness and Efficiency of Educational Innovations’ (bijzonder hoogleraar) at United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Kristof De Witte is further a Fellow member of the CESifo Network.

Expert Assistant Professor

Dr. Pui Hang Wong

Pui Hang Wong is a research associate at UNU-MERIT and an assistant professor at Maastricht University.

Expert Adjunct Professor

Qi Wu

Qi Wu is an Adjunct Professor at UNU-FLORES and an Associate Professor at the Kyoto University of Advanced Science and Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration of Kobe University in Japan.

Expert Lead, Environmental Change Data Visualization and Training

Dr. Qiusheng Wu

Dr. Qiusheng Wu works at the intersection of geospatial data science, remote sensing, and environmental modeling.

Expert Director of UNU-IAS

Dr. Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi

Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi is the Director of UNU-IAS.

Expert Researcher

Min Yang

Min Yang is a researcher at the United Nations University Institute in Macau who is passionate about building a sustainable and peaceful future for all through knowledge generating and sharing.

Expert Senior Associate Expert

Kim Young Sik

Kim YoungSik is a Senior Associate Expert at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2022.

Expert Learning and development coordinator

Soha Youssef

Soha Youssef is the learning and development coordinator at United Nations University MERIT.

Expert Research Associate

Azin Zarei

Azin Zarei is a Research Associate at UNU-FLORES.

Expert Associate Programme Officer | Focal Point for Agri-food and Forest Systems & Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Lulu Zhang

Lulu Zhang is an Associate Programme Officer at UNU-FLORES.

Expert Researcher

Dr. Thomas Ziesemer

Thomas Ziesemer is Researcher at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT

Expert Co-Director of POP

Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann

Klaus F. Zimmermann is President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO); Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT; Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University (em.); Honorary Professor, Maastricht University, Free University of Berlin and Renmin University of China, Beijing; Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Regional Science Academy, and Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, and Chair of its Section for Economics, Business and Management Sciences. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics.

Expert Research Associate / MCII Initiative Coordinator