Ruerd Ruben
Chair Development Effectiveness
Centre for International Development Issues (CIDIN)
RadboudUniversity Nijmegen
 Prof dr. Ruerd Ruben (1954) holds a PhD in development economics from Free University Amsterdam. He lived and worked for 14 year in several Central American countries (Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador) being engaged in programs of land reform, cooperative development and smallholder agriculture. Hereafter he was appointed at Wageningen University to coordinate a multidisciplinary research and training program on food security and sustainable land use in sub-Saharan countries (Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Ethiopia). He started an innovative program on the prospects for smallholder incorporation in tropical food value chains.
In 2006 he obtained the chair in development studies at Radboud University Nijmegen to conduct further research on voluntary organizations and the impact of fair trade value chains. Since 2010 he is also the director of the independent Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
