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Prosperity — topics on building a sustainable and fulfilling future
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Research Staff at UNU-MERIT
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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.
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Prof. Bart Verspagen
Bart Verspagen is professor of the Macroeconomics of Innovation and New Technologies.
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Prof. Dr. Luc Soete
Until September 2016 Luc Soete (15 September 1950, Brussels) was Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University. Before that he was Director of the United Nations University research and training institute: UNU-MERIT located in Maastricht, The Netherlands and Professor of International Economic Relations and Director-Dean of the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG) at Maastricht University. He is a member of the Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy (AWT) and the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW).
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Prof. Dr. Ronald Skeldon
Prof. Ronald Skeldon is a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Geography at the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.
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Prof. Dr. Cathal O'Donoghue
Cathal O'Donogue is Head of the Rural Economy Research Centre at Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority in Ireland.
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Prof. Dr. Joan Muysken
Joan Muysken is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, where he teaches macroeconomics and labour economics.
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Prof. Dr. Jacques Mairesse
Jacques Mairesse's research is applied and belongs to econometrics in the proper sense that it tries to connect empirical and theoretical analysis with particular attention to data and to methods.
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Prof. Dr. Arjen Leerkes
Prof. Dr. Arjen Leerkes is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT.
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Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser
Dr Khalid Koser is Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund.