Development Aspects Impressum Editors

Liebe, Jens

UNW-DPC

Dr. Jens Liebe is a Programme Officer at UNW-DPC in Bonn, Germany. Before join- ing UNW-DPC, Jens was a Senior Scientist at the Center for Development at the University of Bonn from 2008 - 2011, where he served as scientific coordinator of the “GLOWA Volta Project” and coordinated the follow-up “Sustainable Develop- ment of Research Capacity in West Africa. Jens holds a Ph.D. in Biological and En- vironmental Engineering from Cornell University with a focus on water resources, and an M.Sc. in Geography from the University of Bonn.

Plouviez, Nicolas

UNITAR

Mr. Nicolas Plouviez holds a Bachelor and Master degree in European Law from the University of Rennes 1, France, and a Master degree in International Law/Public Administration from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France. He has been working with UNITAR’s Local Development Programme over the last four years, where he has first been in charge, under the guidance of the Knowledge Systems Innovation section, of accompanying the development and set up of the UNITAR Virtual Learning Environment.

Mr. Nicolas Plouviez is charged with the development of learning materials and training projects on local development themes through e-learning courses, face to face trainings and projects in city to city cooperation for knowledge transfer.

Roson, Roberto

Ca’Foscari University Venice, IEFE
Università Ca’Foscari Venezia

Dr. Roberto Roson received a PhD from the University of Umeå, Sweden, after graduating in Venice, Italy. He has been “visiting fellow” at the Free University

of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, at the University of Warwick, UK, at S.Francisco Xavier University in Sucre, Bolivia, University of Barcelona, Spain, as well as at the World Bank in Washington, USA. He currently is associate professor at Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy, where he teaches Industrial Organization and Interna- tional Economics. His research interests primarily deal with computable models for economic policy simulation and with the industrial organization of service in- dustries.