Summary Curriculum Vitae

Hans de Kruijk, December 2009

Personal details

Nationality: Netherlands Gender: Male

Date of birth: 30 October 1948 Place of birth: The Hague, Netherlands

Work address: Erasmus School of Economics, Email:

H8-14,Erasmus University Phone office: +31 10 408 2142

Burg. Oudlaan 50 Fax office: +31 10 408 9161

3062 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands

Home address: Voorschoterlaan 125 Phone home: +31 10 414 7904

3062 KL Rotterdam, Netherlands Fax home: +31 10 213 1807

Key qualifications

·  Poverty assessment, analysis and monitoring

·  Measurement of living standard dimensions and poverty indicators

·  Poverty profiles and mapping, the location of poverty

·  Poverty dynamics

Education

·  MSc in development economics, 1967-1974, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Principal positions

·  Lecturer Development Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, since 1974.

·  Consultant, specialized in poverty assessment and analysis, since 1979.

Current teaching

·  Introduction to Development Economics, undergraduate, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

·  Poverty and Inequality, MA, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

·  International Economics and World Development, MA, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

·  Coordinator Minor Development Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (This is a teaching programme including economic history, globalization and development economics).

Experience with projects financed by international organizations

Country / Organization / Year / Position / Job description
Maldives / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / 2007-2008 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Finance and Treasury / Country Poverty Assessment, background study for ADB’s Country Partnership Strategy 2008-2010
Maldives / UNDP / 2005-2006 / Team Leader, Ministry of Planning and National Development / Tsunami Impact Assessment 2005 (TIA)
Maldives / UNDP / 2005-2006 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Planning & National Development / Contributing to the 7th National Development Plan 2006-2010
Maldives / UNDP / 2005 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Planning & National Development / Contributing to the Maldives Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Country Report 2005
Maldives / UNDP &
World Bank / 2004 / Team Leader, Ministry of Planning and National Development / Second Vulnerability and Poverty Assessment 2004 (VPA-2)
Maldives / World Bank / 2004 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Planning & National Development / Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Initial Progress Report 2004
Maldives / UN-ESCAP / 2004 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Planning & National Development / Contributing to the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2003
Maldives / UN-ESCAP / 2003 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Planning & National Development / Training course to analyse the results of the Household Income and Expenditures Survey 2003
Maldives / UNDP / 2002-2003 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Planning & National Development / Preparing the second Vulnerability and Poverty Assessment
Country / Organization / Year / Position / Job description
Bhutan / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / 2000-2001 / Senior Consultant, Planning Commission Bhutan / Poverty Assessment and Analysis Report 2000
Ghana / UNESCO,
European Union (EU) / 1998-2002 / UNESCO / UNITWIN Chair University of Kumasi / Annual one semester post-graduate courses on Techniques ofPoverty Analysis
Maldives / UNDP,
UNOPS / 1997-1999 / Team Leader, Ministry of Planning and National Development / Vulnerability and Poverty Assessment 1998 (VPA-1)
Botswana / University,
CROP / 1997 / Workshop Member / Reviewing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Poverty Research
Pakistan / Netherlands Ministry for Development Co-operation / 1991-1994 / Senior Consultant, Ministry of Finance Pakistan / Financial Policy Analysis
and staff-training
Pakistan / Netherlands Ministry for Development Co-operation / 1989-1992 / Senior Consultant, Federal Bureau of Statistics Pakistan / Poverty Assessment and Analysis and staff-training
Pakistan / World Bank / 1989 / Consultant,
Ministry of Finance Pakistan / Reviewing the Agriculture Sector Adjustment Loan to Pakistan, background study for future WB loans
Pakistan / Netherlands Ministry for Development Co-operation / 1988-1989 / Consultant,
Ministry of Finance Pakistan / A Short-term Financial Policy Model for Pakistanand staff-training
Pakistan / Netherlands Ministry for Development Co-operation / 1982-1985 / Consultant,
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics / The Operation of the Wheat Market in Pakistan
Pakistan / Netherlands Ministry for Development Co-operation / 1979-1981 / Resident Bilateral Expert, Ministry of Labour Pakistan / Pakistan/Netherlands Project on Employment Income and Basic Needs

Selected recent publications

·  “Maldives Poverty Assessment”, (2008), Asian Development Bank, Background Study for ADB’s Country Partnership Strategy 2008-2010.

·  “Weighting Dimensions of Poverty based on People’s Priorities: Constructing a Composite Poverty Index for the Maldives”, (2007), Q2 Working Paper, No. 35, University of Toronto, (with Martine Rutten).

·  “Poverty Dynamics in the Maldives”, (2007), I4IDE Discussion Paper, No. 200708-02, Institute for International and Development Economics, (with Martine Rutten).

Selected previous publications

·  Vulnerability and Poverty Assessment 2004, Republic of Maldives, UNDP and World Bank, Male’, Maldives.

·  Poverty Assessment and Analysis Report 2000, Bhutan, Planning Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan and the Asian Development Bank, Thimphu, Bhutan.

·  “Poverty Zones in Pakistan”, (1995), in P. Terhal and J.G. de Vries (eds.) Development, Transformation and State Policy, Manohar, Delhi, India.

Membership of professional bodies

·  “Multi-Dimensional Poverty”, working group of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Bonn, Germany.

·  “Comparative Research on Poverty (CROP)”, working group of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), Bergen, Norway.