Professor of Urban Management in Emerging Economies
E-mail: m.vandijk@remove-this.ihs.nl
Tel: +31 10 408 9825

Meine Pieter van Dijk (PhD Economics Free University Amsterdam) is an economist and professor of Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft and professor of Urban management in emerging economies at the Economic Faculty of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (EUR), both in the Netherlands. He is member of the research school CERES. He worked on and in developing countries since 1973 and as a consultant for NGOs, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, different bilateral donors and UN agencies. His recent books are on Managing cities in developing countries, the theory and practice of urban management (2006, Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar) and with C. Sijbesma (eds., 2006): Water in India (New Delhi: Manohar). Since 2000 he published the following books:

• With E. Guiliani, R. Rabelotti (eds, 2005): Clusters facing competition: The importance of external linkages. Aldershot: Ashgate, 298 pages.
• Managing cities in developing countries: urban management in emerging economies, in Chinese. Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2006, 198 pages.
• With Tegegne G/Egziabher (eds, 2005): Issues and challenges in local and regional development, Decentralisation, urban services and inequality. Addis Ababa: University RLDS, 210 pages.
• With M. Noordhoek and E. Wegelin (eds): Governing cities, New institutional forms in developing countries and transitional economies. London: ITDG 234 pages.
• With H. Sandee (eds, 2002): Innovation and small enterprises in the third world. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 324 pages
• Developing female entrepreneurs in agro-based micro and small enterprises in Zimbabwe in times of adjustment. Maastricht: Shaker, 2000, pp. 1-125