Meine Pieter van Dijk

Meine Pieter van Dijk is an economist, Professor Emeritus of Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, visiting Professor at the Beijing University for Civil Engineering and architecture, and  Professor Emeritus of Urban management at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and the Institute of Housing and Urban development Studies (IHS) of Erasmus University and currently works 2 days per week at the Maastricht School of Management (MSM) of Maastricht University.

He published 50 books and 300 professional articles, participates in the Graduate schools of TU Delft and Erasmus University and is member of the research schools CERES and SENSE and worked on and in developing countries since 1973 as a consultant for NGOs, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, different bilateral donors and UN agencies. Recent books: China friend or foe (in Dutch, Almere: Parthenon, 2020), With Yong Jiang (eds., 2019) Sustainable Water Management: Economics and Governance" (ISSN 2071-1050). special issue of Sustainability (MDPI), with J. Edelenbos (eds, 2017): Urban governance in the realm of complexity. London: Practical action. Earlier work: Van Dijk, M.P., E.R. Eldon, H. Sawalha and S. Sadeed (eds., 2017) Water issues in Palestine: an overview, Special issue International Journal of Global Environmental issues, Vol. 16, Nos. 1/2/3, pp. 1-216 and with M. Blokland (eds, 2016): Benchmarking for the delivery of water and sanitation services to the urban poor, Int. J. Water, Vol. 10, Nos. 2/3.