Wim Naudé is Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship at Maastricht University and Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT. He is also affiliated with TIME as Visiting Professor of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Development. Wim is also a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany. A graduate of the University of Warwick, his previous appointment includes being Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland and Lecturer and Research Officer at the University of Oxford, UK. Between 2012 and 2018 he also served as Dean of the Maastricht School of Management. He has been policy advisor to a number of international organizations on issues of global development, including the World Bank, OECD, IFC, UNCTAD, UNIDO, the European Commission, Club de Madrid, Development Bank of Southern Africa and others. His research in economics is broadly concerned with technological innovation, entrepreneurship and human development. (Quelle: RWTH Aachen)