Hans-Peter Brunner

Hans-Peter W. Brunner Telephone: +63-920-9707531

(9 May 1956, Germany) Fax: +63-2-636 2444

E-Mail: ActIntEvoDev@gmail.com

6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong,

1550 Metro Manila,

Philippines

Experience

With Asian Development Bank (ADB) since December 1995. Focusing on economic development and transition through project and sector lending. Specializing in international and sub-regional trade, investment and finance; corporate and financial governance; project-finance and public-private partnerships; small and medium enterprise restructuring. Senior management experience and training at ADB. Taught economics at universities in Germany (1991-1995). Consultant to international organizations (EU, World Bank) and governments (Science Center Berlin and US A.I.D.).

President, Action International for Evolutionary Development, 2016 onwards.

Publications in internationally ranked, peer reviewed economics journals, such as Review of Development Economics, World Development, Eastern Economic Journal, and Small Business Economics, J. of Asian Economics, among others. Books published (as author) with Edward Elgar (US and UK, 2005. Productivity, Competitiveness and Incomes in Asia - An Evolutionary Theory of International Trade), and Sage Publications (India, US 2010. North East India - Local Economic Development and Global Markets; India, US 1995. Closing the Technology Gap - Technological Change in India's Computer Industry).

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. 1990), University of Maryland, College Park.

Fields of concentration: Industrial organization, technological change, trade, economic growth and political economy, institutional economics, social choice (Profs. D. Mueller, Mancur Olson, Thomas Schelling).

Master of Arts (1984), School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University), Washington, DC. One semester of course work at Columbia University, New York, School of International Affairs.

Degree of "Diplom-Kaufmann" (1980, equivalent to Master of Business Administration in the United States), Free University of Berlin.

Senior Executive training at INSEAD (Singapore), 2005.

Seminar on "managing complexity" at Sloan School of Management, MIT (2003/04 and 2009).

Current research

Evolutionary economics, and poverty alleviation through increases in (labor) productivity.

Trade facilitation of inter-modal transport facilities; regional evolutionary and network modeling approach, regional economic integration and economic geography.

Evolutionary patterns of technological and institutional innovation and imitation.